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This is a preliminary transcript of Part I of the Gemini 4 (GT-4) flight crew debriefing. The Spacecraft Operations Branch of NASA's Flight Crew Support Division prepared it on June 16, 1965, from recordings of the debriefing held aboard the USS Wasp on June 9, 1965. In it, astronauts McDivitt and White describe the mission from an operational viewpoint, covering countdown, powered flight, insertion, orbital operations, reentry, landing and recovery. According to the preface, visual sightings were left for a later part.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: 6/9/65, North Atlantic Ocean. This document is a preliminary transcript (Part I) derived from voice recordings of the Gemini 4 flight crew debriefing taken aboard the recovery ship, USS Wasp, on June 9, 1965. Astronaut Ed White recounts seeing “sparkles” during the flight.
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227 White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White At what time? At 55 : 30 elapsed. I ' ve got them in Greenwich Mean Time here again. That's around 22 or 23: 00 . Something like that . Yes . I ' ve got one . I did it at 23 : 58 GMT. How did you do that? You were supposed to be asleep then . Maybe you woke up and did it and went back to sleep. You know , this was the time when you went to sleep, I ' ve got you asleep on the fourth day at 03:30 Greenwich Mean Time . We ' re not on the fourth day. We're still on the third day . I ' m between 54 and 59 elapsed . All right . That's the period of time I'm asleep. I've got the D- 9 Experiment was run between 22 : 43 and 23:22 . I must have done that . Okay. We got Ed up at about 59 hours elapsed time, and did a Medical Data No. 2 Pass on m~ except by then I think they were Medical Data No. 1 Passes . went to sleep at about 60 : 15 elapsed , and I got up about 65 : 30 elapsed . I had about five hours there when I was supposed to sleep . Shortly after you went to sleep we started having I
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