Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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auto-retrofire.
Ri ght.
I did too .
We went through the little
discussion there from minus 30 down, and I knew
what Jim's point was.
I think I distrusted the
system a tad more than Jim did, but I thought
his logic was good.
We had two systems work­
ing to fire the rockets.
i was in full agree­
ment.
We went through and saved fuel for four days
so we could do an OAMS retrofire.
I felt if
we're going to adopt that sort of philosophy
and go through that long of a lean fuel period,
then we could afford another few miles of in­
accuracy thrown in by an early retrofire if we
got the redundancy that you would get from a
double-firing.
So , I elected to go ahead and
have Ed push it.
Al though it probably con­
tributed on the order of 8 to 10 miles to our
miss distance, I don ' t think it really hurt us
that bad.
I had the spacecraft in the retrofire attitude,
and when the retrorockets f ired, I-­
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