Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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1,7 Vibrations
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Those are closely associated with the sounds.
Yes.
I think that the engine gimbaling makes a
tremendous vibration in the spacecraft and pre­
valves on opening and make a tremendous vibration.
The gantry going back and forth vibrated the
spacecraft.
I don ' t think there is anything else,
do you?
No.
Well, you can sure see the gantry lower and the
white room disappear.
That is about all you can
see besides the sky.
That's pretty impressive. That's when I sort of
got excited,when the gantry went down.
That ' s a
new realm.
I thought they were going to launch me.
You're sitting there by yourself then, instead
of all those people milling around.
I do want to make one other comment on this visual
thing.
We did Wet Mock about one or two o'clock
in the afternoon. The sun was shining right in
the window, almost straight down, such that the
sun came across my visor from about just at the
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