Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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3. 3 Insertion Activities
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I thrusted and got off the booster.
Then I went
ahead for just a short time, and then I started
to turn around right away.
During the turn-around,
I jettisoned the fairings.
They went off with a
bang.
I could see the fairing over the horizon
scanner go, but I never did see the fairing off
the nose go.
I just assumed that it went.
We
were already in just a mass of debris up there,
because when we se:p3,rated from the booster there
was stuff all over.
All over. It really flew by to the side of the
spacecraft.
Yes. It was all over the place.
As we.were
turning around it looked like we were going
through a snow storm.
There was stuff all over.
Finally we got turned around, in about a minute
and a half, and we could see the booster there.
There ' s one thing I would certainly like to see
somebody do--I'd have give my right arm to have
had a camera when I turned around and saw tbe
booster.
I ' d like to see somebody carry a camera
in a semi-•stowed position so he could immediately
get it out and come around and take pictures of
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