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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.
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White McDivitt White McDivitt JeG~-1DENT-IA~ 13 up l a ter on was not the thing to do. We had to be all done at a certain time. We had to be with the booster when we came back into daylight. That was it ; that was the thing . We had to be with the boos t er , because we had to take those pictures . Then we had to be with the booster again an hour and a half after that so that we could do the EVA right next to it . And with those kinds of time constraints you don ' t have time to perform a ren dezvous . You've got to get with it right then, but we just couldn't get with it right then . \ You know another thing too ; I'm darned glad we didn ' t use any 10 feet/second initially to sepa rate with. I think we could have used something in the terms of 1 or ·2, feet/second and that would have been fine. Don"-' t you? I cut it short . I only burned about 5 seconds, and I stopped. You have been doing that in all your simulations so I knew you were going to do that . You can even cut it less . It was amazing to me the sepa r ation you get i mmediatel y. I t almost seemed like we had a posigrade rocket on the spacecraft and a retrograde rocket on the GQ;NFt0ENllA~ \
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