Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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White
I t really had a good workout.
6.5 Spacecraft control
McDivitt
McDivitt
White
6.6 100 000 feet
McDivitt
Spacecraft control was like a dream.
A good
engineering description. There weren't any
oscillations. It was as stable as a rock.
I
don't think we need to say much more about that .
It wasn' t like any failure simulation we've
seen . It was the easiest thing to control, easier
than any simulation I 've seen.
Shoot! A baby
could have done it.
We started getting oscillations around then and
the Reentry Rate Command fired a few times and I
d~mped it in pitch and yaw.
There really wasn't
any control problem to it at all, I didn ' t feel.
Did you think there was?
No .
I would have been watching closer if I had
thought there was .
The altimeter was at 96 700 feet throughout
the entire flight. It started on down,and we
were still at about 5 or 6 g's when that thing
started on down. It went on down to about
92 000 feet, and then the g's started off, and
the altimeter started back up again.