Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Neither did I .
I didn ' t hear a thing.
I agree
100 per cent with Gus that you absolutely
can' t hear those aft-firing thrusters.
My ear muffs are loose.
They are always loose
on my ears.
So if you could hear it outside,
I would have heard it.
I didn ' t hear it. I
heard Rate Command.
Those attitude thrusters really make a noise.
They make a big noise. It sounded to me like
I could hear the thrusters firing and I was also
detecting these pauses evecy so often.
Several
times I thought, "Oh , heck, it's stopped! "
That' s right ,
Especially, when we started
getting down towards the bottom.
The old fuel
gages were going down toward zero and the ti me
was running around. It looked like it was
going to be a dead heat between which went .out
first. There was one··particularly J.ong pause
,.
at about 2 minutes and 30 seconds,
I thought ,
"There it goes ," a.nd we made a quick correction.
.And when I stopped, I couldn' t hear a thing.
Nothing changed.
That ' s all it was.
Okay.
I retract my statement.
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