Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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I didn't really get much of a cue out of it at all,
except the lights went out and I could feel a
lit tle bit of acceleration.
The acceleration decreased.
Another thing I
didn't get--I got absolutely no pitch-up associ-·
ated with the--the way the centrifuge does you at
the end of an acceleration. I think that is
associated with the cab on-­
Yes .
I think that's the way they rotate those
gimbals when you come on down.
If they rotate
them a certain way you can get that pitching-up-­
A very safe forward-type deceleration.
I think that pitching up on the centrifuge is not
a malfunction.
It' s just the programing that's
hooked into the gimbals during the stop program.
You've got to get them all going the same way so
that you keep the vectors through you.
During
l aunch the vector is right through you. It's not
varying around , but in the shut-down on the cen­
trifuge those darn gimbals aren't always syn­
chronized together.
They get shifted back there
and it gives you that peculiar sensation.
Well, I was really watching closely but my rate