Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

Text

This text came with the file. It may have mistakes. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

White
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
White
~EIDENJl»,t
heard the thrusters go off he wouldn't push the
SPACECRAFT SEP.
Then we did separate the space­
craft with
the ·exact
routine we practiced in the
simulator.
I said, "Thrusting, separate", and you
punched the SEPARATE button and I guess you went
to Rate Command.
I thrusted straight ahead for
about five seconds.
This is where I think we
came off crooked.
This is the part Ed was men­
tioning before.
We didn't seem to come off
straight ahead.
We seemed to be getting some
sort of an oscillation that got us going in a dif­
ferent direction than what we had going on the
booster.
It seemed,, like one side of the separation plane
came off with more force than the other.
Yes.
That's what it seemed like to me.
It separated at a bit of an angle.
That's right.
We didn't separate fore and aft;
we separated with a lot of rotation to this side.
Yes.
Air-ground communications were all right.
We were
talking to them and they were talking to us.
I
never had any problem there.
Shortly thereafter they called up and told us we
i C&MFfEiEM IIAL