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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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295CONFt-DENTiA-1. White McDivitt McDivitt White McDivitt around like we did, if the thing were out at 3 degrees and started banging back and forth at all , the yaw thrusters would be on constantly; and also that ' s the side that they'd be on . It would have been on the right-hand side. Are you sure that it was red that high up, or did it get red when we started getting down where we got all those oscillations? Because there I ' m sure it was firing all the time. It was red for a long time , Jim, Was it? I was actually watching it, waiting for one of them to bust loose, because it was really firing a lot more than I thought it was out there. Jim asked me about the frequency of it, and I could n't tell whether it was on or off . It was r ed all the time. The other one was hardly heated up at all. Shoot . There wasn't any need for any kind of firing then. It would be interesting to see if the other yaw thrusters were. Well, it ' ll be interesting when they cut these things apart to see what kind of life cycle -- (!IQl'IFIDENJIAL.
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