Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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5.4 !R-12 Events
McDivitt
.CONFIDENTlAt'
checked it.
I was exactly right.
They were
obviously flying it off the same card that we
were, because I checked it and it was exactly
2 minutes and 40 seconds.
Hawaii said they would give me a countdown to
TR-12, and they gaye me the 3, 2, 1 Mark.
I
started thrusting at that time.
Ed had planned
to give me a check at one minute elapsed time,
two minutes elapsed t ime, and at 30 seconds to
g o, 20 seconds to go, 10 seconds to go, 5, 4,
3, 2, 1, and off.
That's exactly what we did.
He called me at one minute, and again at two
minutes.
We went right on down, and he gave me
the mark.
I was checking the t i me as he gave
me the counts. It was agreeing exactly with
my event timer.
At Ed' s mark, I released the
attitude controller :end we were within tenths
of seconds of exactly 2 minutes and 40 seconds
of burn time.
During this period of time, I
think I held the attitudP-s probably within plus
or minus a degree. It was very easy to control .
The thing that I noticed most about it was the