Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Whi.te
I LM.nk you'd find a spot on the ground, and.
hold it.
McDivitt
Because the spot on the ground is going to move.
Whi.te
Yes, it's going to move during the fir~ .
That's
exactly what you do on an attitude ball. you
know .
You have a horizm1 and you have a spot
and then you fly tha":; :~pot.
So, it sounds kind
of l ike the thing I think you can do.
McDivitt
The retrorockets fired, as I said, in the order
1, 2, 3, 4.
We got the manual fit'e out-­
button punched.
Ed got that.
We had said that
because we're getting a countdown we were going
to fire the Manual. Retrofire Button ex1L­,tly
when we got to zero.
We weren' t going to wait
aro,md a second af ter that so that we got the
computer and all that jazz on the line.
We
didn ' t have .any ,;01:iputer to get on the line.
We weren't going to read out anyth:i.ng on the IVI' s
or anything else.
All we were concerned with
was firing the retrorockets .
5,8 Retropack Jettison
McDivitt
I waited 45 seconds.
I started rolling over at
this time. When 45 seconds crune, I had t~e
CONf~DfENTIAb.