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This is a preliminary transcript of Part II of the Gemini 4 (GT-4) flight crew debriefing, prepared by NASA's Spacecraft Operations Branch, Flight Crew Support Division, and dated June 18, 1965. The debriefing began aboard the recovery ship USS Wasp and ended at the Manned Spacecraft Center. In it, astronauts McDivitt and White discuss how the spacecraft systems performed, including the platform, OAMS, RCS and control modes. They also cover operational checks, visual sightings, experiments, mission planning and training, and give recommendations for future crews.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: 6/9/65, North Atlantic Ocean. This document is a preliminary transcript (Part II) derived from voice recordings of the Gemini 4 flight crew debriefing taken aboard the recovery ship, USS Wasp, on June 9, 1965. Part II of this document contains the “Visual Sightings” section of the debriefing (pages 196-224), where astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White describe their observations while aboard the spacecraft.
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201 McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt Why don ' t I discuss t hat thing that I saw those two times at night . Yes , I saw it too , so you weren ' t seeing things . This phenomenon occurred in the dark and I think it \./a.S near Austra.l.ia., each t.iine, but I 1m not really sure. We ' ve got it recorded on the voice tape,so we can go back to the voice tape and see where it was. They were just paral l el r unning lines of lights radiating from the earth up toward us but at a distance away, and i t sort of looked like a curtain. All of these lights rays seemed to be sor t of parallel t o each other. They looked a lot like the Aurora Borealis, except that they were down below us and they were coming up toward us . The first one we saw was considerably brighter than t he second one and i t was sort of wiggly. It probably had five or six curves in it, at least, and I thought it went like this a couple of times, and was bent up around like this . How about in the air glow layer? Was it in the air glow layer? No. I don't think it was in the air glow layer. It looked like it was down underneath -- it looked like it Cilt-lFIDEt;JIAL .
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