Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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drift off just a slight amount, around a degree .
It wasn't deviating a lot so I was making small
corrections.
It would deviate in yaw so I would
control it back. It tended to deviate slightly
to the left all the time.
I controll ed it over
to the right and I would bring the ball back
underneath the dot .
Then I would even go back
to zero.
Then I would release it .
I would
bring the stick ·back to neutral, and for a shor t
time, the rates would bui ld up and the silence
would be deafening.
There would be no noise
whatsoever.
I would think, "God bless it .
Have the aft- firing thrusters stopped firing?"
Then the thrusters tended to yaw the spacecraft
some more.
As it came around , it got past
2/10
1 s of a degree/second deadband and the
Rate Command started firing Main.
Okay, that ' s what I heard.
That ' s right.
That was Rate Command.
When I yawed back around,
it was really going.
I'd come back to neutral
and it would stop.
All right.
Then I couldn't hear them.
I didn't
hear them when we took the check on them.
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