Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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was an automatic mode and it fired whenever it
felt like firing. It didn't give us any flexibil­
ity, and . this is why I felt that the best mode
to be in was Pulse , in case you did get back
there .
That ' s exactly what happened .
I didn't have to worry about the thruster going
off in your face .
I didn't want the thrust ers
to fire and they didn't fire because I didn't
touch t hem. It was a wise choice.
I think this was good .
When you look at it
fr om a picture-taking viewpoint , it gave a
wider spectrum of pictures.
You got different
views of the earth and the horizon.
I ' m glad
we weren 't held to a specific mode.
I think that the picture we did take or the
attitude that we started out , which is shown i n
the newspaper , is just about right .
I guess we banked over to the right, I don ' t know.
That must have been just as I came out .
I don't remember, but it had enough of the
ground in the background so that it was certainly
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