Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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turned off the IMU, the rate gyros, the horizon
scanner, and those switches on the cent er pedas-·
tal.
I di dn't turn off any over on the left
hand side except the Landing Attitude Circuit
Breaker.
May I ask you a question? Did you think it was
a shorter time from 7500 feet down to the
ground than i t was in the simulat or?
Yes, as a matter of fact I did.
I thought it was a considerably shorter period
of time .
Yes , we went from 5000 feet to the ground in
nothing flat.
You're not kidding--nothing like we go down in
that simulator .
I would be curious if we
have any data that tells us what our descent
indicator was telling us on our descent?
It was jumping around . It was between 30 and
40 feet/second like it does in the simulator.
It seemed like we went down awfully fast .
I
would already finished turnfog off everything
in the simulator with quite a bit of margin,
but , of course , I did take the two blood
pressures in here.
I got all the essential