Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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I elected'to make a similar pass through on the
following orbit, watching the stars and making
sure that I had a good small-end-forward.
I
found out that the first pass through was pretty
good until the tail end, where I thought the
stars were in the wrong position. It turned out
that this is just the way they came up, and I was
good for both of them except for the tail end of
the first run through, I logged in two small
end passes through the South Atlantic Anomaly.
I also ran the D-9 Experiment and I found that
by using the fuel and having the H0rizon Scan to
hold when you wanted it to hold, the use of the
sextant and horizon in making measurements was
considerably easier. I made what I feel was a
good Apollo D-9 run.
I ran the D-8 Experiment.
I had two times to run the D-8 Experiment.
I
ran it at the Greenwich Mean Time of 01:30,
I
was to look for Pegasus at O2:28,straight up at
268 nautical miles, and I was all hot to watch
Pegasus go over and was just approaching my
straight up attitude when-­
The sun shined on the window.