Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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3. 2
SECO + 20 Seconds
McDivitt
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McDivitt
cocked off the
second stage.
We were going to $ay on the booster until SECO +
30 instead of SECO + 20.
At 20 seconds the IVI ' s
started displaying and I read them off as 20 for­
ward, 11 right, and 5 down.
Right ,
This was when we were still in the 90 degree bank
position. Is that correct? Or was it after I
had rolled right-side-up?
It was after you had rolled right-side-up.
Okay.
Well, then the IVI's displayed when we were
still on our side.
It seems to me they were
about 25 feet/second forward , and some other
numbers, but anyway they were low enough where I
felt we were certainly in orbit.
At least the
IGS was telling us we were in orbit. During this
time, as I said earlier, I tried to damp the
spacecraft rates, the spacecraft booster rates
which were quite low.
I checked to see that the
OAMS Power Switch was in ATTITUDE and MANEUVER ,
and to see that Eli had switched over to DIRECT.
I told him I was going to do some thrusting but
I wasn't going to separate yet, so that when he
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