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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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259 5, 1 Zt-36 Events McDivitt CONFteENTlAL checked the aft- firing thrusters No . 9 and 10 as we had in the TR- 36 Checklist , except we did it between TR-45 and 40 . Got them all checked out, so that by the time we came over Carnarvon we just went ahead and started up our event timer on their mark. We confirmed with Carnarvon that we had indeed checked on maneuver thrusters and that they were all right . We got this checklist completed well in advance too . We went through it a coupl e of t imes , a lthough there really wasn ' t much to it after the Man euver Thruster Check , I guess we could proba bly follow the retrofire itself here . 5,0 Retrofire I juet covered most of this . I set the event timer up well in advance of Carnarvon . At Carnarvon, I got the TR-36 hack. I got the event timer started right on the money. We got a hack on it later and it was indeed with the ground times . I checked th e aft-firing thrusters prior to reaching Carnarvon, and I told Carnarvon that I had indeed checked them -CONFt0ENflAL-
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