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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.
“The Advance”5 pages
270 5, 6 TR- 1 Events McDivit t White McDivit t White McDivitt White COt\JFtE>l:N!TtAI' Yes. At TR-1 there wasn't really much that we could do in advance , but whatever we could do , we di d . There weren I t many steps . We just waited for minus 1 minute . All you have to do is really just prepare your self mentally, but at T - 1 I told Ed , "We ' re R at a minute . " , and I guess F,d already knew we were at a minute. Yes. F,d did it just exactly as we'd briefed it many times. You punched the SEP OAMS. We heard the bang. He followed wit h a SEP ELECTRIC , rather quickly afterward as we had planned. We heard the bang. Then we waited a short t ime as we had planned , and fired the SEP ADAPrER . Then t here was a great big bang. The tendancy is to punch those buttons 1, 2 , 3. We decided that we didn ' t want to go 1 , 2 , 3. We wanted t o go 1, 2, (pause) 3. That was exactly what we did , and there wasn I t any doubt whether the equipment adapter separated . I had no incl ination to look around . I knew it Ee·N-FiDENTIAb
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