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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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248 'CONFtDt:t+l~A l:-- McDivitt You were still asleep, and I think you got up around 92 : 3(), I would guess . Sometime around in there. I know that I got up three hours before retrofire and I slept about an hour and a half . You can go back and say that you got up about 92: 30 or 93 elapsed. Ed had urinated in the bladder and the bel l ows was full . As it got towards the end, i t started going out very slowly, but it did all go out . So , I turned the thing off normally. I l eft preheat on for a short time, two or three minutes , and then turned it off . After my urine dump, I had about half air and half urine in the bladder, and the bellows filled out. It just.stopped. It was pretty obvious that it wasn't going to go any farther . I turned off the OVERBOARD position and went to PREHEA:T on the other switch. I then went over to the evaporat or and dumped through the evaporator and it dumped right overboard . We used the evaporator dump system one other time during the flight . We played back the tapes and the things we were supposed to do unt il about 93 hours, I CONF-10EN"FIAl...
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