Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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fortunate , because I must have f ired it right
thro..igh my CG.
I stopped out there and , if my
memory serves me right , this is where I tried
a couple of yaw maneuvers .
I tried a couple
of yaw and a co:..1.ple of pitch maneuvers, and then
I started firing the gun to come back in.
I
think this was the time that the gun r an out.
And I waa actually able to stop myself with it
out there that second -';:irne too .
The longest
fir ing time that I put on the gun was the one
that I used to start over the door s up by the
adi=tpter section.
I started back out then.
I
probably fired it for a one second burst or
something like that .
I used small burst all the
time.
You could put a little burst in and the
response was t r emendous .
You could start a
slow yaw or a slow pitch. It seemed to be a
rather efficient way to operate.
I would have
liked to have had a thre~ foot bottle out there-­
the bigger the better.
It w~s quite easy to
control .
I f eel that with the gun there would
be no dif ficul ty in maneuvering back to t he a.ft
end of the spacecr:eif+, and r.h;.s was exactly
what I did later oi-1 , just on the tether.
I got
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