Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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and looking out and actually seeing the nose
of the spacecraft moving around out there.
There's no comparison with t he simulator.
You
just can't simul ate this.
When I looked down
at the ball and did t he retrofire, i t was just
l ike the simulator. When I was l ooking outside
and actually seeing what the spacecraft was do­
ing as I cont rol led i t , it seemed like it was
a lot sloppier with the RCS than it was wi th
the OAMS .
We must have fired over New Mexico or Texas.
Our retrofire?
Yes.
I could see the old brown sandy earth
down right under us.
Yes, Guaymas gave us our countdown, so we were
over northern Mexico .
That ' s the area that I thought we were over.
Actually, it may even look almost a littl e like
west Texas.
It could have been.
Then I did TR-5.
I went
to our retro attitude.
We reported our TR- 5
Checklist complete.
I don ' t know exactly when
Guaymas came on the radio .
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