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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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267 White McDivitt bit early and that's where Ed got his first clue tr·at the TRS was ahead of the other thing. I didn ' t notice it because I wasn ' t watching my event timer that closely. Ed got his GMT sto¥ watch started . Why don I t you go ahead with the electrical , Ed? I turned the main batteries on, verified them on, and verified t hey were taking the load . They were in good shape . This is where we turned the OAMS off and the RCS on. Let me talk about the checkout on the RCS now . We had armed the RCS prior to the TR- 36 Checklist, and checked out each ring. When I was checking the rings out , I felt that I might have a thruster out . That was because when I pitched up or down, my top left yaw thruster was firing in one ring. I felt that I might be generating a rolling moment by having one of my pitch jets out and the yaw jets were having to take out this rolling moment . I checked it in one ripg. I don't remember whi ch ring it was . I went to Direct 8lld did it again. It didn ' t seem to do it , but on the
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