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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.
“Cairo”3 pages
White McDivitt White I lmow I went to sleep at 93. I went to sleep in pm GMT and 15 after the hour , whatever the hour was , and I woke up again . During the time that Ed was asleep , I did two Apollo Landmark runs using Area No. 16 for the first one . This was on Basrah. It was a good run. We'll go into this a lot more in detail later on. I did the second one on Cairo . This was a good run . I went through some more computer mode checks . Every ten seconds, I changed the computer modes and turned the switches on and off, pushed the malfunction lights , hi t the Start C-omp button, turned the switches on and off, ran the IVI's and a whole bunch of other things. The computer was dead and ±twas pretty obvious that it was. At 92 hours, the urine flush system stopped up . Just prior to that Ed had urinated and we had a big bellows full. As it started going overboard, it always went overboard in squirts. Did you have it at 92 or 95? 92. Okay, that was when I was asleep. CON·FIBENTIA~
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