Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
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I bet we used a little more than four , because
I think we came out earlier th'll1 we thought.
No , I sta~ted the event timer to time it .
Well, this is where m:r control difficulty
began.
As soon as my gun ran out I wasn
I t
able to control myself the way I co-..1ld with
the gun.
With that gun, I coi.lld decide to go
to a part of a spacecraft and very confidently
go.
I think right no·,. that .1. wish that I ha:i
given Jim t he gun ,u1d taken t he camera off ,
Nov, I was working on taking some pict.1res
and "lorking on the tethe:r dynamics.
I immediately
realized what was wrong.
I realized that our
tether was mounted on a pl ane ohlique .to the
angle in which I wanted to translate .
I
remem·i:cL' i'.c-•.1::n our air-bea:::-ing work that every·­
time you got at an angle from the perpendicula-:7
where yom.· tether wafl r:iounted, it gave yo.1 a
nice a::-cing trajectory back in t he opposite
direction.
You
I re actually like a weight on
the end of a str ing.
If you push out in one
direc;tion, and you ' re at 911 angle fron ~he
perpendicular, when you reach the end of a
tether, it neatly sends you in a long ar.c ba:k
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