Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965
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in ~he opposite dir ection.
Each time this arc
carried me right back to the top of the
ad.9,ptec-, to th~ i;np ,.:;(' 1,;he s_pa~e(;raft , in fact
toward the adapter section.
One time I w11s so
close to the t hrusters back there that I called
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ire a.nymor:; . ,
eca.use
I was right on the thrusters.
I was even
closer than that f oot and a hal f wh.ich I had
noted to be tne leng!;1:1 of the thz-uster plumes ,
and I didn ' t want to sit on a firing thruster.
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