Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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I had also pushed the man1lal b'uttG::·. on time.
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So, it was about a second after they actually
fired.
Excellent.
The spacecraft was in the proper
retro-attitude and we got a real good push from
the retrorockets.
There are four distinct
pushes, and I never felt a pause between any
one of them.
Did you?
Yes, a little pause between each one.
I
think my cues wei:e tuned llp in a different
manner than yours.
Yours were working on the
controls.
Did you feel that you could actual­
ly see the acceleration? You weren' t looking
out the window.
I was a little bit. It looked like we were
actually turned around and started back the
other way. ila, ha!
I really could feel the g ' s .
Nothing that was
uncomfortable, but I felt each one of them and
I al so felt looking out that I could see the
spacecraft sl owing down.
I know i t was such a
pityingly amount compared to our velocity, but
I was looking down on the ground when they fired .