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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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276 CO ► lFIDEN·f~At • White McDi vitt White in case it looked like I was loosing control in yaw . He could turn off the roll rate gyro and get all the authority that I needed in yaw . As far as I could see, it never deviated more than a degree from where I was supposed to be . I don ' t think it ever got off that center bar in yaw , :ind it never got a dot- that little dot- -away from the 30 degree mark as far as I could tell . Could you see any, Ed? I was sitting there watching it and enjoying it at that t~me tecause the attitude was stay ing right on. Yes . It was right on . We got the 6V in the right direction. N,:-w, the IVI' s didn't read out , because we didn ' t have the computer on, so we really couldn't tell . It was as steady as a rock. You could see the decelerations and looking out the window , I couldn ' t detect any movement in attitude . I was looking right down on the ground several times during several of the retros, and I think you could detect motion fairly well . I didn't see any . C.Qt> jJ; I9-ENlLA.L.
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