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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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257,.CO~ FID"EMltAt plan at about 96:40 with the retrofire at about 97 :45. I think we did the Re,tro Check list right after we completed our pass across the States . We did it right at about 1+30 . Then I did it at one hour. At TA-1 hour we went through the checklist again , and got· all those things that we skipped. Some of them we didn't want to do as early as an hour and a half. We went through it again in an hour, and we did the Preretro Checklist step by step. I think at that time we had everything stowed away. We took a couple last drinks of water, and put the water gun away , and then proceeded on down . White I had one comment on that checklist. I still think our HF procedures are not too well de fined--when we do and when we don ' t put the !::IF out. Not out, but when we put No . 2 on HF. It popped up in the checklist again and we questioned this prior to the flight . Why put No . 2 audio on HF during this time? I do not feel we want to be on HF. We had the HF on. We could hear them calling us , if they did call
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