Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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a little into the tether dy,1amics , and I actually
kicked off from the spacecraft pretty hard .
I
remember Jim saying,
"Hey, you're imparting 2
degrees/second rotational velocity to the space­
craft when you depart . "
I was pushing the space­
craft quite vigorously.
I wanted to push off at
an angle of about 30 to 40 degrees to the surface
of the spacecraft ,
And anytime I pushed off from
the surface of the spacecraft , my main velocity
was perpendicular to the surface . It shot me
straight out perpendicular to where the tether
was attached .
Again, this wasn' t in the position
that Jim could take a picture of me, and it wasn't
too good a position for myself .
I usually ended
up facing away from the spacecraft .
Let me interject something here .
In desperation
I took the Hasselblad camera and stuck it over
out through :Ed's open hatch, and asked him if he
could see the camera and if he could tell me
which way to point it. He couldn' t see the
camera so he never really did tell me which way
to point it .
No .
This was the time that ~rou said ,
"Hey, get
in front of my windo;,.· ." It just so happened that
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