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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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243 -CONfteiENTl~L McDivitt White McDivitt Let me step back a little bit to this computer problem . The computer stuck c.wer the States at around 75 1/2 hours or so . The computer was stuck on . If you've got to have something stick, you're better off to have it stick on, I guess, than off. Especially if you ever want it to work again . As we went out of earshot of the ground UHF radio range in the States , I asked them if that they had any instructions . They said, "Stand by. " I sort of felt that the thing that we ought to do was just leave it on for a while. We got a call from Tananarive and they said to place the computer switch to the ON position and a . a . Power Switch to the ACME. I said that ' s certainly a peculiar place to put the switch and they said these are the instructtons from Houston . I think we had a good computer at that time . I know darn well we had a good computer at that time . I think this is like getting your landing gear stuck up and you fool around with C-ONFIDENTD\t- ~
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