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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.
€O ► ~FIDEt4Tl~L I had suspected they were doing when we launched- why we had unbal anced stack readings . 1-A read 6 amps, 1-B read 10 , 1-C read 11. This accounts for your high reading on Stack 1. 2-A was 6, 2-B was 6, , and 2-C was 6 . . Ttis was the way they were reading. I ran through a check on them when we were actually in the booster phase. So that is why I felt the reading wasn ' t bad. They were both reading about 23 1/2 or 24 volts . They looked pretty good. I got my 2-1 update. I got the t:N of 167, 6T of 3+35, and GMT to retro command of 14 48 34. I have the other times too. The time to 400 000 was 2+18, as read up to me and the time to reverse bank angle was 8+47. This is what we wrote down . This is one time I remember now when I was a little irritated, because they gave times to us in a manner in which I hadn ' t wanted them to e They were supposed to give elapsed time but they gave it to us in GMT time for our retro. We had asked them to give it to us in elapsed, They came right back up and gave it to us both ways. I remember writing it down twice, on the elapsed time of 01 32 35. I can see why they did it because it
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