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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.
37 McDivitt White McDivitt White CO~ ◄ FIDEt><tTIAL had a 153 by 57 orbit. So, they were talking to us . I don't think I ought to read off this stuff now, but they gave us the 2-1 data and all the nominal data we were supposed to get. It came out fine. Say again what the IVI's were while we rolled right-side-up. Right . At the position we decided on taking our IVI readings, which was heads up in a zero-zero attitude, you read off the IVI's to me as 20 for ward, 11 right, and 5 down. Okay. Then I didn't bother nulling the pitch -· needle because we were reall y pressed for time to get around. No velocity correction was called up to us and since we had no velocity correction , and we were fairly busy at this time, I didn't even read out the 52 or 70. I wasn't particularly interested in them. It ' s a funny thing though--52 was punched in and had: been read out and it showed 30. It had been punched in so it read out, you see, as soon as something came in the quantity. So, did have a readout. I read out 30. I remember looking at that. I
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