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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.
57 fashion . It was all over. It looked to me like i t was rotating in three axes in a completely unpro grarnmed manner . It might have been that the roll nozzle was flopping around and the fuel was turn ing it around in different directions. And as a matter of fact, at this time we should go back and draw a picture of what the fuel looked like and what was coming out of the no zzle. The booster was tumbling and you could see the fuel squirting out of the roll nozzle in a big fan like this. I had the impression that if the booster were per fectly stationary, the fuel would have been comi ng out of the nozzle in a great big cone the way you would expect it to, but because the booster was tumbling so rapidly it was coming out in a long, twisted- - l ike a horn of plenty. It was very ob vious ; you could see it, and ther e wssn ' t any doubt about the fact that there was a lot of fuel coming out . Whether this was contributing some thrust to it or not I don't know . White I want to comment on something that was quite an experience for me. When I called out to you, I was looking down at what I thought , since it was pitch black, was the sky. I could see little cet-4PIDfNT~AL
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