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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.
49 McDivitt ---G0N F-40 ENTIA L_, 4. 0 ORBITAL FLIGHT I think that the orbital flight should be broken down into some very distinct sequences . I think there are really three of these . The first one is about the first three or four orbi ts where we were trying to stay with the booster, where we di d the FNA and where we finally got back in. The time that we finally got the spacecraft depressur ized ends one phase of the mission. The next phase or sequence of the things that come along is really the second phase . This is the middle 50 orbits or so , where we did the experiments and where we did the flight plan in a highly modified manner . We did the flight plan we started out to do . And the last phase or series of sequences wa s the ~et ro- preparation , r etrofire and the reentry . The retro- preparation was actually another distinct phase of the mission . I think that we ought to divide it up into those three phases-- the station-keeping and FNA as Stage 1 , general orbit as Stage 2, and retro-preparation and reentry as Stage 3. So I think we should CONFID ~~:rtAl
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