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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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260 COt~FIOf:m1"AL 5. 2 TR- 22 Events McDivitt 5.3 Tlt-13 Events McDivitt and they were operating properly . At TR-22 I was alining the platform. I started alining the platform over the States , and I put it in Orbit Rate for a while . Final ly we got over to the dark side and there wasn ' t anything else to do , so I alined it some more . I alined that platform for an hour and a half . We had the best alined platform at retrofire in the world . We were in pretty good shape by the t ime we got to the T - 22 checklist, R which is really nothing at all. It 's just another platform alinement . We checked our ground updates, and again Carnarvon told us that we had a good load in the TRS . At TR-13 minutes we started the computer. We started our TR- 13 minute checklist at about TR-1 4 to make sure we didn ' t run into any problems . We got into Orbit Rate, and I got all the things out just like the T - 12 checklist R says . We had an OAMS burn of 2 minutes and 40 seconds. They called it up and I
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