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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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255 McDivitt White McDivitt White doing . As we came up on Carnarvon , I thought that we were in excellent shape . We had a lo t of spare time . We could get ready for retrofire . We came up to the United States and ran a pass across the United States . We got the updat e times and we got all the reentry quantities ~hat we needed, both with and without OAMS . They told us that they had a valid load in the TRS . At this time , I assumed that they checked the TRS, but when we got our early retrofire , I wondered if anyone really had checked the time . I know it was off at least a second. · I'd estimate it was off a little more than a second. A second and a half, probably. No more than two seconds because we didn't arm it until three seconds• But it sure fired shor tly after that . Yes. One thing that we got was different. All our quantities checked out except for one. They called up a landing time which, the first
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