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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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294 McDivitt maybe this might associate itself in some wa;y with something in the system prior . I think it was prior , because we were in Reentry Rate Command and we started the roll. Then the yaw needle drifted on out and it looked to me like it never got over about 3 degrees/second . I was trying to read the 0.1 degree/second seal~ It might have gone on to 4 degrees/second with the roll rate we had in there , and the jets just kept right on firing constantly . What I had done when we started was to leave the roll gyro on, and I rolled the thing over till I got almost full deflection on the needle . Then I put the roll gyro off so I'd have 15 degrees and we wouldn't tend to overrate the thing so t hat the Reentry Rate Command was firing all the time . What I think happened was that as we went on down, the yaw rate needle tended to drift on out . I don't know if you noticed it or not , but it tended to drift out . It started at around 2 degrees/second, and it drifted on out slowly until it got to about 4 degrees. I thought it never got out to more than 3 degrees/ second . Later on , when we started oscillating CO~ ◄ ftOENf~AL
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