John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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No .
I could feel it .
It wasn't uncomfortable enough
where I had to l ift my head or anything.
I
wasn't thinking about a pogo at all. It wasn't
like I was trying to sit there and think about it.
But as we were going along I could feel this vi­
bration.
And then it just crossed my mind, well
there is pogo, and then we went on to staging.
But it wasn ' t bad at all .
The amplitude must
have been-­
You were paying more attention to your clocks
while I was watching the system ,gages and I
wasn't really aware of the times that were going
on.
I had my eyes- ­
It came around 2: 15 or so and lasted to about 2:30.
Maybe it was 2: 10 or 2:05 , but it wasn't bad .
We had one area that I will get into later that I
haven't told you about and that I didn't like.
Oh.
So , I think we hit the pogo and the g ,. s .
Engine shut down properly.
The lights came on.
Engine~- 2 light went out and the Engine 1 lights
went out. Just the way it was supposed to at
B~O and staging.
Two Stage 1 lights ON , Stage 2
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