Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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White
McDivitt
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I would estimate it at between 200 and 250 feet.
Okay.
We were in pretty good shape right then
and I applied about five or six seconds of
thrusting that should have come out around
5~
feet/second .
I was in a hurry trying to get our
separation velocity stopped, so I was thrusting.
I had it in Rate Command .
I pointed the space­
craft at the booster and started thrusting, and
by the time I got the computer in the Catch- Up
Mode and the Start Comp button on, I had already
thrusted ' 2 or
3 -~ feet/second out and I
counted up another · 3
feet/second on the IVI's.
It looked like we were probably stopped, although
I couldn't tell tlBt quickly.
I knew I had as
much f::.V
in there as I had at separation, and
possibly a little more, because I tried to hold
the separation f::.V
down to no more than
•5
feet/second.
We watched it for just a short time
and then it was obvious that we hadn't stopped our
separation velocity--our relative velocity--so we
were still separating.
So , I applied about ano­
ther •• 3
or • 4 feet/second, which should have
more than overcome the :4
or · 5
feet/second
I put in initially. It looked like we had stopped
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