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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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280 Whi.te I LM.nk you'd find a spot on the ground , and. hold it. McDivitt Because the spot on the ground is going to move. Whi.te Yes, it's going to move during the fir~ . That's exactly what you do on an attitude ball. you know . You have a horizm1 and you have a spot and then you fly tha":; :~pot . So, it sounds kind of l ike the thing I think you can do. McDivitt The retrorockets fired, as I said, in the order 1, 2, 3, 4. We got the manual fit'e out-- button punched. Ed got that . We had said that because we're getting a countdown we were going to fire the Manual. Retrofire Button ex1L-,tly when we got to zero . We weren' t going to wait aro,md a second af ter that so that we got t he computer and all that jazz on the line . We didn ' t have .any ,;01:iputer to get on the line . We weren't going to read out anyth:i.ng on the IVI' s or anything else. All we were concerned with was firing the retrorockets . 5, 8 Retropack Jettison McDivitt I waited 45 seconds. I started rolling over at this time. When 45 seconds crune , I had t~e CONf~DfENTIAb.
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