Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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full regalia, with all the pressut'e s·.lits in a.
pressurized ~onditio:n.
I think we can go up
there and learn a lot abo"..lt the gun wit ],.out
pr essure suits on, in a plain flying suit type
operation. Perhaps polish the training off with
a 1i t tle ·,1or k in press'.l:rized S 0.lits. If yo"..l work
in the zero--g airplane with ':I. p:.-essurized su.Lt
it ' s pretty awkward .
White
In pitch and yaw I felt I could maintain effect­
iv~ly zero rates.
I don ' t k:no·.., how it looked to
you Jim, but it looked like I could establ ish
a rate and take the rate out without too much
trou'ol~. The yaw is the lowest moment o.f them all,
Pitch was very easy, j''..lst to pitch the. th.ing ,1p
and down .
I ' m still a little suspicious of roll.
That's the area that I wo"..lld like to look into a
little more .
I think that yo"..l could get yo"..lrself
into a kind of balled up situation with pitch,
roll, and yaw all coupled up. It might take a
little bit of fuel to get yourself straightened
back out again.
But just in translating from
Point A to Point B, you could care less if you
roll ed, as long as you kept pitch and yaw
straight .
And that ' s why I say I think you can