Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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I said, "Yes .
There are two of them, aren't
there?"
Yes, and then we waited a while longer and-­
I said, "Gee, there ' s nothing on the g- meter. "
I said, "The g-meter must be broken " ,so that ' s
why I reached up and reset it . It actually
went down a little bit. So we went a little
while longer, and I said, "Ed, I feel a lot of
g ' s ", and he said , "So do I ." Then he said 1:We
must be up between three and four. "
If felt like that.
And I said, "Yes, I think we're up about that
high too ." And the g-meter was still reading
zero for all pratical purposes . Pretty soon it
started building up slowly. It went up to
2, 3, 4, and I called out at 2, and I called
out at 4, and I called out at 6, and I think I
called out at 7.
About the time you called out the 2, I knew we
had been had.
Yes. It's just that we were super-sensitive to
g's and the load pulling us into the seat was
on .the order of a tenth of a g.
It ' s true.
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