Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

Text

This text came with the file. It may have mistakes. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

188
McDivitt
Wnite
McDivitt
€01\IFIDENfl~ l-
EVA we went into free drifting flight .
We
powered down the platf orm and the computer, shut
off the attitude indicator lights--we went through
a complete power-down procedure .
We were really
trying to save bettery power, 0AMS fuel , and
everything else we had .
We went on a complete
power-down, down the checklist, and we just
didn ' t have anything on.
And we stayed in this free drifting mode for about
two days .
That right , Ed?
Closer to 2 1/2 days .
Mostly for the first 2 1/2 days we were in a free
dri fting mode .
We didn ' t do the platform aline­
ment and the translation at around 8:10--8: 20 in
the flight plan.
We did not obtain any booster­
star measurements .
As a matter of fact, I'd
like to comment on the booster-star sightings , or
just the booster sightings .
We saw the l ights of
the booster definitely on the first pass as we
were tracking it .
The second pas~ RS Ed sai~
he saw them, and he said he was sure he saw
them because they were flashing .
I was pretty
sure i: saw what he was talking about.
However, this
occurred just at sundown.
Every other time at
COtfftOE~TI~