Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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couple of the axes at the same time.
Here again
before the flight we discussed the axis system.
Ed selected the spacecraft as his axis system.
It didn ' t a:;:>pear that he was having a bit of
trouble with i t .
He was maneuvaring with
respect to it , regar,lless of what the earth,
sun , moon, a~d stars were doing.
It was
pretty ob\·i,..,us to me th:l.t was exactly what he
was doing.
Well, when I came back the firs t tims to ·~he
spacecraft with the gu-:r-- I had used the tether
to bring me back--I did go back up on the
adapter area.
This is the first time it had
happened.
I said , "All right .
I 'm ~omL'1g
back out again." This is one of the most
impressive uses of the gun that I had .
I
started back out with that gun, and I decided
that I would fire a pretty good burst too .
I
started back out with that g.m , a.~d I literally
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f lew with the gun right down along the edge of
the spacecraft , right out to the front o~ the
nose, a..'1d out past the end of the nose.
I then
actually stopped myself with the gun.
That was
easier than I thought .
I must have been fairly
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