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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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277cer~ftDENT~Ai. McDivitt White McDivitt White I'll tell you . I was really happy after that OAMS retrofire and the retrorocket retrofire . I figured that we had exactly what we were supposed to , and I was positive we were going to come down on that cotton-picking carrier. I was really quite happy after that , because I don't think 3ven i :c.. t:'1"" simulator we ever had on0 t~.d-~· easy. Shall we make 01lr admission on OAMS retro at this time , Jim? Yes. As a matter of fact it might be appro priate. I'm probably one of the biggest an tagonists to the OAMS retrofire that there possibly is at the Manned Spacecraft ·center, because I think it's a fuel wasting ma~euver and a lot .-:,f other things . I still think it is. I ' ll still say one thing--after I fired the OAMS retrofire and I knew I was going to come down , I was a l •::>t more relaxed than I had been before I got there. I ' m going to have to tell Dr. Gilruth that , but I still think we can get by without it . It was nice to see tt work. It was nice . CONRDENTJAL
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