Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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drogue.
No, I don't think I did.
Okay.
I don' t think I did. I think I left it i n
Reentry Rate Command until I turned it off
and then turned
off the power.
I went from
ACME to OFF on both rings . It didn ' t get
any worse. I think what I might have done is
I might have gone from OFF to ACME to Rate
Command , to turn the propellant valves off rather
than going from
Well, I know it damped out there in the end
considerably.
I think it was when the Rate
Command, or whatever it was, was firing,
Well , Reentry Rate command was going all the
time.
We were going at a heck of a lot
faster rate than 4 degrees/second.
Well, we cut down our oscillations considerably
after you did something over there.
I thought
you had put it in Rate Command .
I did put it in Rate Command , but I didn't
leave the propellant on. This was why I
wanted to get r id of all the propellant onboard
t he spacecraft if I could. But I didn't want
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