Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
translate and correct pitch a.'1d yaw -,rery succes.s­
fully and effectively forget about roll, just as
we do .in our reentries or our retros.
The questio~ is: Was there any problem with the
g-..m of maintaining a fairly well stabilized at­
titude and sti11 get my tra~sla.tion inP'.it? I
did this actually three different times and this
was what I had done when I was coming back to
the spacecraft the last time.
I had to put in
both pitch and yaw and had ta..~en them out and
I was coming back.
I was going to fire my last
thrust to·,mrd the spacecraft.
I got a little
burst.
I could feel a little bt'..rat and than
it petered out .
B-:it you can put a tra.-isl.~tion
in. I was also s~rp~ised that I was able to stop
at the time I tried to stop it out there about one
half or two-thirds of the way out on the end of the
lanyard .
It seemed to stop pretty well. It was
either the gun or the lanyard dampening me . It
didn ' t dampen me in roll, so I think it was the
gun that actually did it.
I think that this previous bunch of words just
spoken covers a lot of de tail, of the first
three or four orbits of our f l ight, and it covers
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