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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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261 5.4 !R-12 Events McDivitt .CONFIDENTlA t' checked it . I was exactly right . They were obviously flying it off the same card that we were , because I checked it and it was exactly 2 minutes and 40 seconds . Hawaii said they would give me a countdown to TR-12 , and they gaye me the 3, 2, 1 Mark . I started thrusting at that time . Ed had planned to give me a check at one minute elapsed time , two minutes elapsed t i me, and at 30 seconds to g o , 20 seconds to go , 10 seconds to go , 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and off . That's exactly what we did. He called me at one minute , and again at two minutes . We went right on down, and he gave me the mark. I was checking t he t i me as he gave me the counts . It was agreeing exactly with my event timer. At Ed ' s mark , I released the attitude controller :end we were within tenths of seconds of exactly 2 minutes and 40 seconds of burn time . During this period of time , I think I held the attitudP-s probably within plus or minus a degree. It was very easy to control . The t hing that I noticed most about it was the
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