Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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2.18 Acceleration
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2. 19
SECO
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McDivitt
Well we got up to 7 1/2 g's. The acceleration
wasn ' t bad at all. I guess when you are really
interested in what you are doing like on the boost
or reentry, those g's don't mean anything.
I
don't like to ride the centrifuge. 7 1/2 g's is
7 1/2 g's on the centrifuge, but on the booster-­
My vision was crystal clear.
Me, too .
I wasn't even breathing hard.
I wasn ' t
huffing or :pui'fing or anything.
I was just laying
<there relaxed .
Particularly on this one, The acceleration burn
during powered flight and insertion was very light .
SECO occurred as it should have on my clock.
Ed
thought it ~s about--what did you say it was?
I thought it was a second or so early and it
concerned me because that meant we were going to
have to burn.
So I was quite expecting to hear
a big 6V come up from the ground.
There is no
question on that SECO either. It shuts off and
you get that linear straight deceleration.
The thing that surprised me was that we weren ' t
talking about it at all.
We were just going as
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