Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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It looked to me l ike we were getting a lot of
lift out of it.
It looked to me we were getting an awful lot of
lift out of it.
It was really whipping around there.
And we were going around at a pretty good rate.
The needle was off to the left .
That ' s right .
It moved out sl owly , slowly and got out t o
about 2 degrees and it just held there .
The
spacecraft was as stable as a rock.
I damped
the thing a couple of times in pitch and yaw and
it just stablized right on down there.
I
don ' t think I even t ouched the pitch again .
I
think I maybe touched the pitch four times all
the way down and the yaw maybe six or seven
times.
What I was looking at was just a huge
portion of the sky.
I could see the ground,
then I could see the sky, and I really saw a
lot of the country as we came rolling by.
What surprised me is how much it was.
I knew
why it was doing it but I thought it was
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