Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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magnitude.
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cribe it.)
About like that.
I was really surprised the thing held on there,
to tell you the truth.
So was I. I was expecting the drogue chute to
fall off any minute.
I was, too.
It worked all right.
It held us together.
If I went through it again, I'd be perfectly
happy sitting there riding through it, to tell
you the truth.
The way I looked at it, it was rather interesting.
I hadn't quite expected that.
Neither did I. I know that Gus said that he had
a pretty wild ride and he thought the thing was
destabilizing him.
He had a scheme where he just
turned off the propellent valves to stop the
propellent flow.
That meant that he had to wait
about 10 or 15 seconds to get the propellent
valves back open again to get the jets firing.
Well, I wasn't going to do that. I thought
the thing to do was to turn off the electronics
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