Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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over, because if we were going to be nnypl a~e ,
we were going to be short.
I j".1st wanted to
get over a.nd get in a good attitude.
So , I
r olled the thing upside down, got the-­
One thing---on the Post- retro Checklist, we
dedded this time to use Reentry Rate Command
rather than Direct.
That ' s r ight.
That ' s a deviation on our checklist.
When I got the thing upside dow:n, I was still
in Rate Co!llllla.nd.
I held the lift vect or up,
heads down, until I got down
to· about 3
minutes and 15 seconds .
I got my 3 minute
time hack from the ground.
I got my clock
counting up a 3 minutes .
At about 3 minutes
and 15 seconds I started th0 roll.
What I did
was, I put in aoout 15 degrees/second, and then
we turned off the roll gyro .
I just left the ·
thing rolling.
I controlled the pitch and yaw
inside the rate deadba.nd, which was plus or
minus 4 degrees , just a3 you would in Direct.
still had the rate deadba.nd
t o take care of
any wild pertubations that we got into .
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