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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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266 White McDivitt first clue that the TRS was ahead of the ground time . This is an area where I particularly watch the time. This is an a.:-ea where I 'm making a time check to start the elapsed timer going in order to get our time after retrofire . I was watch ing it pretty close . The indication on my watch was that the TRS vi.as about a second or so early. I felt we had a good Green·..n.ch Mean Time hack. We checked it several times and I thought we had a good one. With my time refer ence it was approximately a second to a little better early. At this time I had about half of the checklist completed before we got to the time for it . I verified it several times . It's not a hurried time at all, from 36 down , I don't believe . There ' s no time in there when you're really rushed unless it-- Yes . It is not hurried, provided you have everything else completed and you ' re not doing anything else but preparing for the retrofire- you have nothing going wrong during this period. At TR-5 the sequence lights came on a little CONFIO-EN:f~AL
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