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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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281 White McDivitt McDi vitt 5.9 Communications McDivitt White McDivitt 5. 10 Update /4ONFl0-ENflA t- retro-;;ett squib on, and I punched off tho retro- - The light came on And you punched it . That 's right . The light came on at 45 seconds and I punched it . There was a real solid bang, and I knew we separated from the retropack . No doubt there either. As we went on down , we finally sa•,r the retropack com,::- on around behind us . Do you have anything else on the retropack jettison? I guess not . That ' s pretty simple . We got the com from t:~e ground . I thought we had good communicat.tons wi t h the ground. No problems with the communications . I was a little concerned with the communications earlier in the flight , because we wer en ' t get-• ting anything. We weren't getting retrofire times or any other i nformation . But to ~ards the end of the f light coouwmica.tio:is wer,1 8iC cellent. -E O NFIDENTI-A l!-
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