Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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arc was that this thing cut out.
That thing
was a real lifting body.
You ' re really getting
a lot of lift initially, and if you roll around
there, you 'd kill it all off; and your aero­
dynamics is such that you really can't tell,
because the stability is so loose right there .
White
You know you're going to get some lift if you
have an offset CG, but you couldn't tell
where it was going,
McDivitt
You ' re in the area where you're getting a lot of
lift so i f you do a roll , you've lost that
range right off the bat .
We came down on this
great big spiral, and here I think we ought to
get into
6.4 Acceleration Profile
McDivitt
- - the acceleration at retrofire.
I called
down on the ground and told them that we had
four retros.
We got automatic.
We got auto­
retro.
We got all four in sequence .
We got
auto- retro.
Auto- retrofire appeared to be about
a second and a half early.
In the acceleration
profile I said, "Well, here come the g ' s, Ed. "
and I felt the g ' s going up.
He said yes.