Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

Text

This text came with the file. It may have mistakes. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

White
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
White
321
<IFIOEmr~r
then, we never would have gotcen it out.
But we turned the RCS thrusters off at about three
or four thousand feet.
So they definitely weren't
on.
That ' s right.
And we turned all the circuit
breakers off on the RCS thrusters , so they shouldn' t
have been firing from shorts.
The prop valves had
been off at about 25 000 feet.
So we had everything
the way it was supposed to be, and we didn ' t see
anything leaking. I'll comment on this window.
I saw the main chute floating right to the left of
us.
I think my window might have been a little
clearer than yours.
I just was going to comment on the windows.
:rt,­
window was terrible!
I couldn' t see at all.
Remember the helicopter was hovering around in
front of us about 200 feet away and I never even
saw it. You said, "Look at the helicopter!"
He was a lot closer than 200 feet.
He was right
smack-dab in front of us.
I never saw the helicopter.
I couldn't see
through the window.
I'd estimate he was not farther out than 50 feet
from us .