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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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253 McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt We had that on the l aunch also . The trash bag was f ull . Did yours stick on the side? It stuck. So di d mine . I put mi ne further up -- It didn ' t have anything heavy in it . It was light weight . It was all trash . Dry trash . It all stayed there pretty well . We di d get the stowage done in time . I think we had about 10 or 15 minutes in which to collect our wits f or the -- That' s right . I was trying to make an -effort such that at the time we arrived over Carnarvon the greatest part of the stowage would be down. However, we didn ' t quite make this . I had a time powering up the spacecraft , and I had the IGS power on . I had already turned the IMlJ on. I was beginning to warm it up , and had it in the Cage Mode . When we got to Carnarvon we were still stowing things away . I t hink by that time I had al- t0NF1Dc1'ff~L
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