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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.
88 White McDiv"a t t White McD:ivitt White McDivitt White McDivltt White McDivitt Yes . The Zeiss came out with the Hasselblq,d , from that S3Jlle package as the movie ca:nera. And the storagf~ certainly wan :i l ::>t easier . What do you think? Tbat ' s right . Particularly getti~g it out that center thing. You can just zip :hem o:.it of there with no probl1Jra ;lt all. So, a~ about 1 : 30 we started to assHmble the gun . If you look at the checklist, yo:.i see that we probably gcit the gun assembled :Ln nothbg na.t . It 1 s no problt:im to assemble the gun . We started our eg:-ess preparations essentially on time . As a mattHr df fact , I think we evtm got star ted a little earlier. Then, we weren ' t worrying abo-;.1t anythi11g else . Then, we w:ren I t worrying abo·J."!; staying with the booster. We probably started it abo~t 1:35 or 1: 40 . Over the States we started our ~gress preparat io~. We went to our .Jther checklist . You were o,•er Ascension , calling off the check list. I sta::ted reading the checklist off to Ed and COl>IFJBEN+iN.
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