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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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as a sequence of pictures every five minutes.
The sequence is three pictures every five minutes,
for as many passes as you can get . So you have to
start this thing at sunup, or as soon as the hor
izon becomes light. We took our first three pic
tures . We went on through and we were supposed
to start our Horizon $canner Check--.
Jim , the time we started you ' ve logged in here as
11:04 .
Okay, at 11 :04 we started our MSC- 10 Experiment .
We were given instructions to start the Horizon
Scanner Sunset Check at 11:54. It just so turned
out that we were going along and we weren ' t out
of frames of film yet for MSC- 10 .
It was still daylight.
Yes, it was st.ill daylight, that's right, and we
could still get some more good pictures, I thought.
Here we had instructions to start our Horizon
Scanner Sunset Check, and in looking through this
thing, it looked to me like that was the only
place we were going to get it; so I don't under
stand exactly why we had to run MSC-10 and the
Horizon Scanner Check simultaneously. They
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