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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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256 McDivitt C.QNFIDENT~AI. time , I copied it as 15: 55 , and t he sec.;ond time I copied it as 17:10 . This was prior to firing anything , so I think they corrected one time only. I thought the rest of it was very well h8J1dled. We had the times called up and verified several times . As we started our pass across t he States , I started alining the :EDJ.atform.. We had the best alined platform although we didn ' t really need an alined platform since we didn't have a closed loop guidance system. But we sure had the best alined platform at retrofire that the space business will probably ever see . I alined the platform across the United States , and then I went to Orbit Rate . I had about a 20-minute alinement on it and went to Orbit Rate . We left it in Orbit Rate . I did this alinement small-end-forward because I wanted to see where I was going for a change . We went into the dark side , and we really got into our checklist then. We performed the P~e r etro Checklist well in advance of when it was supposed to be done . It shows it in the flight
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