Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
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whatever you want to 8all it, I wouldn't fire
the thrusters.
You asked that already wnen I was out.
Yes.
I asked you if you needed it and you said
no.
So, then I felt it would be better not
to fire the thrusters, because you were drifting
back up over the co~kpit.
I could see that you
were going up over us.
I couldn' t see back
behind me , but I could see by the motions that
you had when you went by me that yuu were going
to continue on .
I felt th~t it would be a lot
safer if we just let the spacecraft drift
unless it got into very high rates.
I fired the
jets a couple of times just to bo~k ,:,.ft the
rates.
I let it start drifting when y0u got
on the tether so tha~ you wouldn
1 t get back
there on top of one of those thrusters when I
fired them.
From abou-: the time? you ran out of
fuel until you got back in I didn
1t do mu-:::h
attitude controlling.
I did some.
Everytime
the rates got up pretty high, I
1d knock them
off.
You were able to ma...~euver around the
spacecraft when the spacecraft itself had rates
of say plus or minus • 2 degrees/second in a
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