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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.
89EO·MFIDENTIA't:- White McDivitt White McDiv.i.tt we w1:nt through it . He unntowed evet'ything. Why don ' t you tell them what you did there, Ed? I just read the checklist off to you , and you went a.head and riid i.t. Okey . I had to get bar.k .i.11":o the r"ight -h.md box, and I un:=i tow0d the item:, there . The first time I went back in there , I took the firs t items out, and I did :1ot unstow the full box . I rem,~mher I told you, II It I s all comi.r1g out , Jim. I ' m gol11g to bring them all out on the 19.11yard. " Remember? Right . We'd tak~ them o~f piece by piece if we n eed it . At that tim,1 I pill lfld the wh0l,'! lanyard out and the cockpit was full of little bags . I was qu.ite happy that they had prevailed upon me to put a lanyard on all this equipment . I had thought at one time that it woulri be mvt'd des iri-:l,bl ~ not to p,1t a lanya.rcl on . We 'd been wo:::-k.ing a lot in our sim11lations without the lanyard and it seemed pretty easy . But looking at it now, I highly recom..n~nd that eve r-ybody k,-lep that stuff on a l anyard . We would have r eally had a mess if we ' d had all -€0NFl0ENflAt· --
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