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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.
44 McDivitt -E O I'~ FI DE~ITIAL you can use to stabilize the pin when you insert it. And when I s ay the holes through which you insert t he pins are unsatisfactory, I ' m referring to holes through a cylindr i cal shaft that is hollow inside so t hat you not only have t o find the hole to put it in on one side , but you have to work it around and find the hole that it goes t hrough on the other side. I don ' t believe that's satisfactory . I don't think the opening into the hole is supposed to be beveled and they weren ' t beveled on my seat and they weren't beveled on Jim ' s seat , either. I t hink a beveled hole is a hole that is bigger on the outside than it is on the inside. I don' t believe there is much dif ference between the outside and the inside of the holes for the drogue pins. I had a difficult time putting my own in. I put Jim's pins in . It took me awhile, but I put them in. I never did get one of mine in satisfactorily at this time , so I think we should do something better with the drogue pins. In addition I couldn ' t even see the hole. You had an easier time putting my pin in t han you had putt ing your own pin in. GO~~FIDEl>ITIAL
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