Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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bit early and that's where Ed got his first
clue tr·at the TRS was ahead of the other thing.
I didn' t notice it because I wasn ' t watching my
event timer that closely.
Ed got his GMT sto¥ ­
watch started.
Why don I t you go ahead with the
electrical , Ed?
I turned the main batteries on, verified them
on, and verified t hey were taking the load.
They were in good shape.
This is where we turned the OAMS off and the
RCS on.
Let me talk about the checkout
on the
RCS now.
We had armed the RCS prior to the
TR- 36 Checklist, and checked out each ring.
When I was checking the rings out, I felt that
I might have a thruster out.
That was because
when I pitched up or down, my top left yaw
thruster was firing in one ring.
I felt that
I might be generating a rolling moment by
having one of my pitch jets out and the yaw
jets were having to take out this rolling moment .
I checked it in one ripg.
I don't remember
whi ch ring it was.
I went to Direct 8lld did
it again. It didn ' t seem to do it, but on the