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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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301 McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt drogue. No, I don't think I did. Okay. I don' t think I did. I think I left it i n Reentry Rate Command until I turned it off and then turned off the power . I went from ACME to OFF on both rings . It didn ' t get any worse. I think what I might have done is I might have gone fr om OFF to ACME to Rate Command , to turn the propellant valves off rather than going from Well, I know it damped out there in the end considerably. I think it was when the Rate Command, or whatever it was, was firing, Well , Reentry Rate command was going all the time. We were going at a heck of a lot faster rate than 4 degrees/second. Well, we cut down our oscillations considerably after you did something over there . I thought you had put it in Rate Command . I did put it in Rate Command , but I didn't leave the propellant on. This was why I wanted to get r id of all the propellant onboard t he spacecraft if I could. But I didn't want €0NFJDEN+1Al-
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