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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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206 cer~FI McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt different occasions. It was during your last sleep. I was taking a few final movies and I was watching for this very phenomenan. It was the first time I saw it . It would be a little shaft of white illumination and it was a long time be fore the sun came up. I don't know whether that's what they were seeing before or not . But when the sun itself actually came up, I didn't get much of a big ball of light--just some big, bright lights coming up from behind the earth . That's all I was getting. I didn't see this other thing. I saw quite a few shooting stars. Oh, yes. They seemed to fall and burn up considerably below our altitude. They looked a half or a third as high as we were when they were actually being consumed and being burned up. I never saw one above us , did you? No . Okay cloud coverage-- There was a lot of it. There was lots of it. There were a lot of times when there wasn't any. I don't guess there's much we can sal about this . co~~IDE~~TJAL _J
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