Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Post- SECO
McDivitt
White
3.0 INSERTION
Yes .
There was a Post-SECO.
In the period be­
tween SEX:!O and SECO + 20 seconds, I unstowed the
maneuver controller.
I don ' t know where our
attitudes were.
They were the same as they were
a t SEX::O, and it was about 20 degrees pitch-down,
wasn ' t it? The rates during this period were on
the order of less than a half a degree/second.
We really had a period of from SECO to SECO + 30.
So, duri ng this time I actually fired the trans­
lations thrusters at least two times in one axis
to kill off the rate in t hat axis, and I think it
was probably the booster yaw or spacecraft pitch
where I act ually fired the U,rusters once or
twice to bring the rates back. It might have
been the other way around.
But, we didn't jetti­
son the fairings then.
I did unstow the maneuver
controller and the attitude was the booster burn­
out attitude and the rates were very low, less
than a half a degr ee/second.
I
think we
mentioned prior to this
time the feeling that we came off a little half­
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