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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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320 (O~~FIDEt ◄ TIAL McDivitt White 7, 5 Spacecraft Status McDivitt White McDivitt We did a lot of work when we first landed. We were fiddling all over and getting things out of boxes and stuff like that. We probably did more concentrated manual labor in those first 5 minutes after we got on the water than we had done at any other time during the flight except trying to get the hatch closed . I think at this time I was completely drenched with s weat . I said it wasn't hot earlier, but with t he combination of the suits and the fairly warm climate that we were in, I was sweating pretty heavy. I looked over at Jim , and he was pr~tty sweaty · too , I think . We didn't have any RCS fumes . We didn't see any RCS colored smoke , which is supposed to be red and purple or yellow or something like that . We didn't see any fumes at all. I saw a little steam. I saw steam. I saw a little steam coming out of the RCS thrusters , and I was sure that there wasn't any RCS propellant in those manifolds, because at the rate we were gyrating around with that tight deadband on Rate Command , if we hadn't burned all that fuel up by COt'4FIDEt~TIAL
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