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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.
291 White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White I said , "Yes . There are two of them , aren't there?" Yes, and then we waited a while longer and-- I said, "Gee, there ' s nothing on the g- meter. " I said, "The g-meter must be broken " ,so that ' s why I reached up and reset it . It actually went down a little bit. So we went a little while longer , and I said, "Ed, I feel a lot of g ' s ", and he said , "So do I ." Then he said1 :We must be up between three and four. " If felt like that. And I said, "Yes, I think we're up about that high too ." And the g-meter was still reading zero for all pratical purposes . Pretty soon it started building up slowly . It went up to 2 , 3, 4, and I called out at 2 , and I called out at 4, and I called out at 6, and I think I called out at 7. About the time you called out the 2, I knew we had been had. Yes. It's just that we were super-sensitive to g's and the load pulling us into the seat was on .the order of a tenth of a g . It ' s true . CONFIDENTIAt-'
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