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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.
McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White and main bus were all reading all right. I felt it was just a misbalance of loading. I talked to somebody previous to this time and it was explained to me that this could happen this way. I felt perhaps it was in the adapter batteries- would feed through on one of the stacks causing one of them to take more than the other. Yes. You could have gotten into the knee of an adapter-- This is what I had figured- - that a couple of my adapter aatteries were unbalanced, causing this to occur. I also had seen this on the simulator quite a few times. When did the unbalance start? When we got in they were-• As soon as we were on internal power? Right. And I didn't feel this was the time to talk about it. It was still under 30 amps, which was my point. So I didn't bring it up. You didn't want to worry me? I didn't want to worry you and I didn't want any body on the ground to start hollering about it . You should have written me a note. I did feel that this was exactly what it was-- ~Q~~ftE)EN:rJAL-
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