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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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302 to let those things fire for a long time and maybe eat up t he drogue chute, and find ourse l ves wi thout propellant and without drogue chute , too . So , once we got the drogue chute out, I let the things fire for a while and turned the electronics off. Maybe I turned it back on and went to Rate Command , and off with the prop ellant valves . I ' m not really sure . White I think you had it in Rate Command for a little while - --i)robably while you were firing out the fuel. McDivitt Yes, that ' s what I did . I went to Rate Command and let all the fuel fire out, just as we had planned . So that I was sure that the rates were high enough t hat we were going to fire out the fuel without disturbing the thing on the drogue. So we fell on down . Ed got the snorkel on the vent valve about 28 to 27 thousand feet . We came on down . I watched the altimeter go through 11 ooo. . 6. 8 Main Chute Deployment McDivitt At 10 600 I punched out the main chute . I saw it go out with a lot of crap and corruption flying off the nose . It went out and came out in a reefed conditi on, and I saw and I said we had a good reefed chute . I don ' t guess you -@!ONftiJEN 1IAL
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