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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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293_c:G NFIDENJIAL McDivitt White McDivitt White White everything on the instrument panel , and I could see things very clearly outside . Things were going so smoothly on the inside that I looked out too . I enjoyed the scenery on the way down . Once you get in that position and you get the high g ' s you ' re not going to do anything inside . In the amplitude of the oscillations, --all the simulations show that they tend to decrease as you get to high g ' s and the f r equency picks up . So the only thing you could do is hurt things if you start screwing around with it , except we didn ' t have any oscillations anyway . It was just as stable as a rock . I think at this point I ' d like to put something in . I ' d like to find out when they analyze the data whether the upper right-firing thrusters on my side were firing a whole magnitude more than the right -hand upward-fir ing thrusters . In fact, they very early in the pr ofile became a cherry red and just stayed red hot , even a little bit white hot all the way down . There was no frequency to it at all . It appeared to me they were firing continually and I think L'ONFIDEN :J:IAl
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