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Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1965-06-09 · 340 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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wouldn ' t have.
That ' s right . We had to accelerate our pace a
l ittle bit and perhaps get a little faster and
not quite as thorough in o~r stowage as we
would liked to have been . I think everything
was put away. Everything was put away except
for the umbilical . We knew we weren't going
to stow the urine hose, so we put that in the
umbilical bag. The two meals that we had left
we put in the umbilical bag aleo .
We had some other things . We had the extra
vehicular sleeves off your sujt, the blanket
that went over my leg, the launch- day urine
bags , and a couple of other things were down
underneath my legs . They were between my l egs
and the seat .
Right . I put my launch-day urine bng in the
bag also , so that things wouldn ' t ric.oohet·.
around.
I think we had all your stuff in the bag and
I had all my stuff wedged between my legs and
the seat .
We both also had a trash bag on either side .
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