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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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274 White I had also pushed the man1lal b'uttG::·. on time . • McDivitt Whi t e McDivitt White So , it was about a second after they actually fired . Excellent . The spacecraft was in the proper retro-attitude and we got a real good push from the retrorockets . There are four distinct pushes, and I never felt a pause between any one of them. Did you? Yes, a little pause between each one. I think my cues wei:e tuned llp in a different manner than yours . Yours were working on the controls . Did you feel that you could actual ly see the acceleration? You weren ' t looking out the window. I was a little bit . It looked like we were actually turned around and started back the other way. ila, ha! I really could feel the g ' s . Nothing that was uncomfortable, but I felt each one of them and I a l so felt looking out that I could see the spacecraft sl owing down . I know i t was such a pityingly amount compared to our velocity, but I was looking down on the ground when they fired .
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