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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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303 White McDivitt 6.9 Conununications McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt could see that too well, could you? No, I couldn't see the chute out. I saw it finally when it deployed. I saw the thing hanging up there just the way it was supposed to, and then the thing dereefed, came billowing out just the way it should, and :'said, "We ' ve got a good chute". One edge of it collapsed and came back in and collapsed about a third of the chute. We've seen a lot of movies of these chutes corning out, so I wasn't really worried about the thing collapsing . It went in and came back out. There weren't any communications that I could tell were there? Maybe we received some trans missions on the drogue, but I'm not really sure. As soon as we •deployed the main chute the antenna came off. So we couldn't talk to anybody after that . I don't think we got anythi ng on t he drogue. I ' m not really sure that we did. I don't think we did. Shoot! We were getting thrown around so that we couldn't have heard anything anyway. C8t--.J·F ID-ENTIAI: I
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