Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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White
2.20 Steering
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
Whi te
straight as an arrow when that thing shut off.
There weren't any oscillations or roll.
I was getting a sinusoidal oscillation on my rate
needles , and I don ' t know now whether it was
pitch and yaw.
I cal l ed it out a t the time , to
you a:nyway, Eli .
Right.
And my attitude arrows were- ­
Your attitude arrows were right on? Okay.
But I
was getting an oscillation, very small, about
plus or minus a quarter degree in rates .
Not so
that the needle was actually moving back and forth
across the dots. It was pretty obvious that it
was.
Now, I sort of felt that I could feel that
movement a littl e bit, like this , but not annoy­
ingly and certainly the stabilization was holding
i t close enough.
But it wasn ' t that the rate
needles were just constantly oscillating back and
forth. It seems to me it was in pitch but I'm not
really sure .
A booster pitch,
The attitude error needles were the only deviation we
had at any time.
Yaw was just about nominal all
the time.
We had the pitch deviation at guidance
initiate. It went to full scale and steered right
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