Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
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4.0 ORBITAL FLIGHT
I think that the orbital flight should be broken
down into some very distinct sequences .
I think
there are really three of these.
The first one
is about the first three or four orbi ts where we
were trying to stay with the booster, where we di d
the FNA and where we finally got back in.
The
time that we finally got the spacecraft depressur­
ized ends one phase of the mission.
The next
phase or sequence of the things that come along
is really the second phase.
This is the middle
50 orbits or so, where we did the experiments and
where we did the flight plan in a highly modified
manner.
We did the flight plan we started out to
do .
And the last phase or series of sequences
was the ~et ro-preparation , retrofire and the
reentry.
The retro-preparation was actually
another distinct phase of the mission.
I think
that we ought to divide it up into those three
phases-- the station-keeping and FNA as Stage 1,
general orbit as Stage 2, and retro-preparation
and reentry as Stage 3.
So I think we should
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