Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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spacecraft.
I think you called me and said I
was out of the spacecraft.
I called and told you that you wer e cl,3n.r.
That ' s right.
And that ' s when I started firing the gw:i a"ld
act~ally pr~pelled myself under the influence
of the gun.
I don ' t believe I gave any input
into the spacecraf"t whm1 t 1,3ft that t Lne ,
did I?
No , you left as clea,1 as a whistle.
Later on, I gave you some pretty big ones.
You were re~lly boun0ing arou~d then.
Now at the tjme, J l ef t entirely under the
influence of the gun avid it 0arried me right
straight oat, a little higher tha"l I wanted
to go.
I wanted to ma:.~euver over to your side,
but I maneuv•;r~d out of the spacecraft and
forward ru1d pBrhaps a little higher· than I
wanted to be.
When I got out; to whst I estimate
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as p~obablyone-half or two-thirds the way out on the
tether, I was out past the nose of ·t'ne
spacec:::-clft .
I started a yaw to the left with
the gun and that ' s when I reported th~t the
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gun r 8al1J worked quite well. I believe that I