Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
CDr ◄ FIDiNI IAJ..
there.
I knew Jim was doing his job holding
attitude for me .
Let me comment on the attitude- holding right
now.
Initially we started out in blunt-end­
forward. banked to the left about 30 degrees or
so.
This happened to be the attitude we were
in.
We wanted to be bl u:~t- end- forward for the
sun . and they told me it didn' t make any
difference what attitude that we were in when
we opened up the hatch.
We had originally
planned on opening the hatch toward the ground.
I was CRlled by some station that said it didn't
make any difference what attitude I was in when
I opened the hatch.
We opened
the hatch.
We
opened it in that particular attitude, and I
held the attLtude for the f irst portion of the
time that Ed was out .
When you had th" gun you
managed to stay reasonably well out in front .
I held the sp~cecraft essentially stationary
with respect to the local horizontal.
After
yvJ. ran out of fuel in the gun yo'J. were on top
of the spacecraft all of the tim~ .
I felt that
unless you really had to have the thing
stablized, to maintain your S•?nse of balance or
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