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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.
289 White McDivitt White McDivitt White It looked to me l ike we were getting a lot of lift out of it . It looked to me we were getting an awful lot of lift out of it. It was really whipping around there . And we were going around at a pretty good rate . The needle was off to the left . That ' s right . It moved out sl owly , slowly and got out t o about 2 degrees and it just held there . The spacecraft was as stable as a rock. I damped the thing a couple of times in pitch and yaw and it just stablized right on down there . I don ' t think I even t ouched the pitch again . I think I maybe touched the pitch four times all the way down and the yaw maybe six or seven times . What I was looking at was just a huge portion of the sky. I could see the ground, then I could see the sky, and I really saw a lot of the country as we came rolling by. What surprised me is how much it was . I knew why it was doing it but I thought it was eeNFtofNllAL ..
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