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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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315 McDivitt White McDivitt I went through one call, a.nd then I went through a short count on the HF. I heard nothing and received nothing from anybody else . This was about 5 minutes or so after we had been on the water that we actually made the HF check. Maybe it wasn't even that long. As soon as I got all the switches where I wanted them, I went ahead and- I saw you put the antennas up, and you went ahead and put in a transmission pretty quick. Right, I didn't make another check on the HF. I hadn't been too impressed with the operation of the HF up to this time, and things were getting pretty busy. Five or 10 minutes later we had the recovery people on• I guess we're going to get to that. I heard them say we had a helicopter almost overhead, They called just after we retrofired, I think, and before we got to blackout--called and said that they should have a helicopter over us in 5 minutes. We didn't get any onboard data . The ground information that I got was, as I said, from Gus. Then right after we hit, Omnibus said, "I got them in sight. I'm 48 miles out on TACAN radial..: ",something or otl-1.er. So, I figured we
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