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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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White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White 239~K)ENTIM. plan , 30 minutes to go from Guaymas back to Guaymas. That's a high speed orbit . That ' s right. It does have that, doesn't it? Looks like a goof , doesn ' t it? It only takes 40 minutes to go from Hawaii to Hawaii. We were really traveling! I don't know what time the computer stopped . I think they've got it on the ground . They can read the ma.l light. We were talking to them on the ground . It should be on the air to ground tape . Then we were cleared to do Apollo D-9 in the orbit that covered the night time around 77 1/2 hours or so . That was my D-9 at night, wasn't it? That's right. Ed did this. Before you went to sleep, though, we had one other thing. We had the zodiacal light photographs that we took, and we had a special procedure called up where we pointed straight down. Oh, yes . That's right. Pulsed it , with the shutter speed of the Hassel blad open . You operated the Hasselblad and I operated the spacecraft . We pitched down and EO~F1D·EN11AL
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