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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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278 McDivitt Whi te McDivitt White McDivitt White It was , and I was real sorry we d:idn '·t havG a computer because after those two thingn , which I thought were done certainly as good as I could possibly do them. I felt sure that ~e could have landed right on the cotton-pickin~ car rier ' s deck if we just had a computer to tell us wher e t o go . I would have liked to have tried the guidance . I worked hard eno,.1g'.l on that reentry guidance and I didn't get to use it . Jim , I think there is one thing that we left out - -the reading of the percentage of 0AMS fuel left. I think we called out --3 or 4 per cent . That ' s right . I had 3 or . 4 pe·rcen t remaining on the gage . We called it out and it will be on the tape . I wrote it down ~t 3 percent . Here it is . 3 percent of the fuel left after 0AMS. Yes , an1 it wa~ a little hard to rea1 down there and parallax was pretty bad . I estima ted that it was 3 per cent. I read off the g_uanti ty on the gage and it was a little over 1100 .
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