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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.
“Mission Control”2 pages
65 White McEivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt EONftE>ENllAL.. double blink of the lights for a l ong, long, long time. And finally I thought I could see them blinking again, and they were a lmost a single light this time since they were so far away. And this occurred over a very short period of time . TRn minutes? Five minutes? Yes . Is that right? Whatever you think, Ed . Yes . I fully agree wit} you. So then I said to Ed, "I ~hink we are losing it ." So I started thrusting a t it again. All of a sudden it was apparent that the thing wasn't as close as it had been. So we started thrusting at it . In fact, that was one time you said we had lost it, didn't you? I said I think we have lost it . I had it in sight. I didn't saj that I had lost sight of it. I thought you meant you had lost sight of it. No. I still had it all the time. But it wasn't getting any bigger. I didn't have e:n:y idea in the world where we were . And I still couldn't really tell. Finally , we could see the sky starting to get a little gray ~NflDENTb\L
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