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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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230 CGNFIDENTIAt McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt I got myself up around 65 :40 something elapsed time . I just drew a mark there. That's exactly where I've got you up--at about I got a comment here. This is something that went on throughout the flight . I went to sleep and I looked at the OAMS Quantity Gage and it was reading 60 percent . When I woke up it read 56 percent . This meant a 4 percent drop and it was somewhat alarming since we were saving fuel so much. He accused me of having to use all the fuel up while he was asleep. Ha, ha. No . I'd noticed that the gage went up and down before, but it never had gone up and down so much in such a short time . It would move up and down by 2 percent quite frequently over a period of 15 minutes to an hour . It would change by 2 percent. It did this between 60 and 70 percent for a long , long, long t ime . We were going pretty easy on the fuel . It did move up and down like this quite a bit . This is just a comment that throughout the flight the OAMS Quantity Gage did fluctuate quite a bit . We had the uncertainty ~fl01:Nt lA!
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