Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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around like we did, if the thing were out at 3
degrees and started banging back and forth at
all , the yaw thrusters would be on constantly;
and also that ' s the side that they'd be on. It
would have been on the right-hand side.
Are you
sure that it was red that high up, or did it get
red when we started getting down where we got
all those oscillations? Because there I ' m sure
it was firing all the time.
It was red for a long time, Jim,
Was it?
I was actually watching it, waiting for one of
them to bust loose, because it was really firing
a lot more than I thought it was out there. Jim
asked me about the frequency of it, and I could­
n't tell whether it was on or off . It was r ed
all the time. The other one was hardly heated
up at all.
Shoot .
There wasn't any need for any kind of
firing then.
It would be interesting to see if the other yaw
thrusters were.
Well, it ' ll be interesting when they cut these
things apart to see what kind of life cycle -­
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