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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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254 I GO t\J FIDE~I-A=l White McDivitt Whi t e ready strapped myself into the spacecraft . had my survival gear hooked up, my shoulder harness hooked up and my lap belt on loosely. We did the things that I could do by myself, such as stow·ing the ventilation module and stowing the cabl e . You were doing other things . That's what I said . We were coming up to Carnarvon . I was shooting to have all this stuff put away by then . We didn't have it all put away but we had most of it done, where I could actual ly get around to flying the space craft again. We checked in with Carnarvon , and confirmed our retrofire time . We weren't really supposed to pick up our retrofire dat a until we passed over the States . From Car narvon on up to the States, we ~ontinued to stow away little bits of pieces that we had . I think you were still eating. We finally de cided that you ' d better stop eating or we weren't going to be ready for reentry . With a little prethought I had taken one meal , prepared it and set it aside so I coul d eat it just before reentry . This is what I was
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