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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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204 GOl>~FIDE~~TIAL White McDivitt White McDivitt sun shining on them . They picked the sun up . They picked the sun up and reflected the rays . They r eflec t ed t hem just as bright as stars, I thought . Didn ' t they ! Well, you know the thing that was most interesting to me was the time I called you and said the sky was full of stars , and you said it wasn't , the sky. We were pointing down at the earth. That was my first exposure to having your window in t he daylight and mine in the dark . At this time we had a l l the fuel particles from the fuel from the boosters spewing out all over, and my whole view out t he win dow was j ust completely full of these reflecting particles . They looked kind of like one of the s t ar fi elds we had past off on us as star fields . It looked kind of like a star field, but it looked kind of unreal , too . That's exactly what it was . One of the prettiest things was when. we had a urine dump at eunset,because we just had mil lions and millions and millions of these fireflies or part icles outside . When you put them all out like that with the sun shining on them,as we 'd mentioned earlier · with the black background, it just l ooked marvelous. As a matter of fact, we took some movies of them·,. E..-01 RFIDE~~TIAE
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