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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.
31 2.18 Acceleration McDivitt White McDivitt White 2 . 19 SECO McDivitt White McDivitt Well we got up to 7 1/2 g 's. The acceleration wasn ' t bad at all. I guess when you are really interested in what you are doing like on the boost or reentry, those g 's don't mean anything. I don't like to ride the centrifuge . 7 1/2 g 's is 7 1/2 g 's on the centrifuge, but on the booster- My vision was crystal clear . Me, too . I wasn't even breathing hard . I wasn ' t huffing or :pui'fing or anything. I was just laying <there relaxed . Particularly on this one, The acceleration burn during powered flight and insertion was very light . SECO occurred as it should have on my clock. Ed thought it ~s about--what did you say it was? I thought it was a second or so early and it concerned me because that meant we were going to have to burn. So I was quite expecting to hear a big 6V come up from the ground. There is no question on that SECO either. It shuts off and you get that linear straight deceleration. The thing that surprised me was that we weren ' t talking about it at all. We were just going as , CONFID·EN"TtAt
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