Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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stopped that yaw, and I started t .1.·a.nsla:b.• 1-"'
back toward the spacecraft .
It was either on
this translation or t~'1P. one following this that
I got into a bit of a combination of a pi·tcl-i
roll and the yaw together.
I felt that I could
have corrected it , but I knew tha.t i.t ww.~d h av0
ta.-<e.'1 mor,-: f...i.el than I had wanted to expend with
the gun, so I gave a little tug Jn the tether
and came back in.
This is the first experience
I had with tether dynamics and it brought me
right back to where I did not want to be.
It
brought me right ba~k on the top of the sp~ce­
craft, by the adapter section.
Jim was
calling me and said that I was out of his sight.
I told him that I was all right , that I was up
above the spacecraft , I looked down and I could
see attitude thrusters firing, littl-~ white
puffs out o~ each o~e.
I wasn
I t very close.
They looked just like what Chamberlain' s report
told us. It looked just like about a foot and
a half or maybe 2 feet of plume from the space­
craft and certainly didn I t look omin-.11H.~ to me
at all.
In fact it looked kind of like the
spacecraft was really alive and working down
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