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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.
232 McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt certainly could tell on the gage when it was going to vent . It vented right down there at about 960 . Yes . I thought we ' d really hack that apart when we got to the systems . Yes . All r ight . I wanted to be sure that we didn ' t forget it . I guess we were both awake at this time . We did MSC-10 some place . Here 's where we got into a bunch of bad flight planning. Someone on the ground screwed up . They ran our Horizon Scanner and MSC- 10 Checks right together. We started out our MSC-10 Check and at the same time we were supposed to start powering up the platform and alining it . What time did you have MSC-10 Experiment? We were supposed to power up the platform at 10 :15 , Let ' s see if I got the start times here for MSC-10 . We'd have it in the book. Well, we didn't get a start time because MSC-10 starts when the horizon comes into view, when we could see the first light . We started the MSC-10 EONflDENTIAJ.
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