Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Yes .
This is where we did D-9 i n drifting flight
only.
Yes , and again t hat was like taki ng the car out
of the garage without gasoline.
All it amou:~ted to was looking t hrough the window
and picking out two stars that you can see and
taking a sighting between them.
Jus t a qualitative
check t o see what the sextant woul d do .
We di d
t hat .
D- 9 turned out to be a qualitative, rather
than a quantitative experiment , except in a very
isolated instance.
We weran' t even stabilized.
You were t rying to talk me through some of the
thines , but I had the helmet off and on-­
This was when we firs t discoverad that. the light
bulb in t he readout P'Jrtion :,f the sextant was
burned out or something was wrong.
Right .
We couldn ' t read out t he angle.
We called down, but we nevar got a call up on
t hat or any instructions.
Well, there weren't any.
Ha ha ha.
Okay, then I
have in my notes here , as I mentioned earlier:
" 'Ed went t o bed at 20 :15 , got up at 22:15 and went
GONA0ENllAI..