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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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237 White McDivitt White McDivitt nose down attitude, with a pitch up rate of about t wo degrees/second , in the Horizon Scanner Mode . The thing caught and held the spacecraft within the deadhand and finally damped it down , and we stayed in the Horizon Scanner Mode. I think that this is about the time that we went to Horizon Scanner , isn ' t it? You were in Horizon Scanner while I was asleep. Yes . I don ' t have that in my notes, but we went in the Horizon Scan Mode around 72 hours , I think. I think it was at 16 : 03 GMT that I mentioned it . I didn ' t do an O.rbi t Nav Check at the 72 hours and 50 minutes as shown in the flight plan . Oh , here ' s where you were up again , Ed . Because you were up when the computer screwed up , wer en ' t you? Yes. I saw the light . Okay. During the course of our passes over the States , here , around 75 hours , I was told to do Orbital Nav Check N:l.9 at about 75 : 30 , and I was to do Or bital Nav Check NolO at about 75 : 50 , Okay. I completed the Orbi tal Nav Check , Run No . 9, and then you must have waked up , I think . I think you wer e asleep when I did that .
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