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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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251 White McDivitt -eOl'<tflDENTl~L dent in the pile of junk that we had in the spacecraft . IL.was apparent to1,me at ·I.hat time that we were going to have to go a lot faster than we were going or we'd still be up there stowing stuff away at retrofire time . So , Ed and I then went into high gear and we really started stuffing stuff away. We put the film in the middle food box, and we put the caJDeras and some of the refuse, including three defecation bags, exerciser, and some other things, in the left-hand aft food b·ox. I took a lot 1,nger to stow the equipment than we had planned. Do you have any comments on that? Yes , I thought this also . We had just every thing out prior to this time. We hadn ' t really been able to stow anything. We used every piece of our equipment right up to the time we started our stowage . In fact , I think you were getting a little uneasy there for a little while that we weren ' t going to get it all in, That's right. At the rate we were going, we c,;J ~~FI f:}E·NT·IAL-..
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