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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.
28 White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White 2. 16 GO/ NO GO McDivitt 2, 17 Systems Sta tus White initiate. It was beautiful steering. Nominal, nominal, nominal, except like that saturation on the error needle, but we have been briefed on that. That ' s right . That ' s something to be expecterui When did it saturate? Right at staging. No, right at guidance initiate . Oh, okay. It saturated right there . Right there at guidance initiate, which is what you ' d except. They said they were GO and I said we were GO . There wasn't much problem. Ed and I had been checking ba ck and forth on the systems . I knew they were all right . The systems were all pretty good . There was only one I didn ' t like and that was the stack readings on the main ammeters . One was reading about 28 and the other was reading about 14 , But I felt that this was associated with bringing the batter ies on. I went through and checked everything. Everything was readi ng properly. The control bus
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