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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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325eeNFIDEt~'fl·At- McDivitt Yes . 7.6 Post-La nding Act ivities • McDivitt White 7,7 Comfort McDivitt White McDivitt White As I mentioned, we stirred around the cockpit and got out a bunch of l.i ttle bi tty things that we needed. We did a lot of work but we were doing all right. We got awfully hot . I guess we really can't say much about the post-landing activities . It went long as we expected it to , just the way we want it to. Ed , do you have anything? I think we've covered it. I was hot . I think Ed was hot. We were both perspiring a lot. I think we could have lived in it for a lot longer than we did. Don ' t you? Yes. Did we cover the point where they called and asked what kind of rescue we wanted? No, I didn't. Why don't you? I was just plugging in the b,io-med connector and I heard them call you. We could either have a heliocopter pickup in about 20 minutes or we could have a pickup by the carrier in the spacecraft in about an hour EO~FIDENfht\b.
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