Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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I'll tell you.
I was really happy after that
OAMS retrofire and the retrorocket retrofire .
I figured that we had exactly what we were
supposed to , and I was positive we were going
to come down on that cotton-picking carrier.
I was really quite happy after that , because
I don't think 3ven i :c.. t:'1"" simulator we ever had
on0 t~.d-~· easy.
Shall we make 01lr admission on OAMS retro at this
time, Jim?
Yes.
As a matter of fact it might be appro­
priate.
I'm probably one of the biggest an­
tagonists to the OAMS retrofire that there
possibly is at the Manned Spacecraft ·center,
because I think it's a fuel wasting ma~euver
and a lot .-:,f other things.
I still think it is.
I ' ll still say one thing--after I fired the
OAMS retrofire and I knew I was going to come
down, I was a l •::>t more relaxed than I had been
before I got there.
I ' m going to have to tell
Dr. Gilruth that , but I still think we can get
by without it.
It was nice to see tt work. It was nice.
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