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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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324 et>r<4FIDEN I (Al McDivi tt White .• We both t ook our gloves off to get the t hings out of the spacecraft that we wanted . I left my he lme t on and Ed left hi s helmet off . When we got ready to leave , we dec ided that we would put our gloves back on , take our helmets off, put our neck dams on, inflate our May We s ts , and t hen get out . That ' s what we did . The sea condi t ion was just like they sa id it was- - t hree to four feet . Three t o four feet in that thing is like 2000 foo t waves to an aircra f t car rier . We were bobbi ng around but we had a lot of experience bobbing around before, so it wasn ' t t hat bad . I might add that the egress training in the Gulf of Mexico really made me feel real confident when I was out there in that water all by myself . When we get to that training , I ' m really going to give some gold stars out . -COt\JFIDE~ilAL
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