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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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. 86 McDivHt W"nite McDivi t t W!1ite McDivitt McDivitt sweat time-wise on making o:1r EVA. So , I was trying to be of what assistance I could to Jim on watching the booster during these first .. critical periods. Yes. It wasn ' t unappreciated because this booster was becoming a speck on the horizon , and if you blinked your eyes you co:1ld very well lose thn dar.r1 thi"lg . When wa were out that seconi day, I think you said one tiine you did. lose it for a minute. Tha~' s right . I was lucky enough to still be seeing it , un~il yo0 .i started picking it up again. That ' s r.·I.ght . So, I'm saying it really took t ~o pairs of eyes constantly looking at that booster to keep it in sight. It's juAt one of those thingH that just took so much time thkt we hadn ' t planned on. It was almost unbelievable . In o:.ir flight plan from an ho:.ir to at1 hour and twenty minutes we don't really show a'.1.ything. Although, here again , we were busy with the booster. So, when we got l:l.1'.'0und to closing with the boost~r , there wasn't any closing. We finally got clearance over the United States to stop L
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