Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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everything on the instrument panel , and I could
see things very clearly outside .
Things were going so smoothly on the inside that
I looked out too .
I enjoyed the scenery on the
way down .
Once you get in that position and you get the
high g ' s you ' re not going to do anything inside .
In the amplitude of the oscillations, --all the
simulations show that they tend to decrease as
you get to high g ' s and the fr equency picks up.
So the only thing you could do is hurt things if
you start screwing around with it , except we
didn ' t have any oscillations anyway. It was just
as stable as a rock.
I think at this point I ' d like to put something
in.
I ' d like to find out when they analyze the
data whether the upper right-firing thrusters
on my side were firing a whole magnitude more
than the right-hand upward-fir ing thrusters .
In
fact, they very early in the pr ofile became a
cherry red and just stayed red hot , even a little
bit white hot all the way down .
There was no frequency to it at all . It appeared
to me they were firing continually and I think
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