Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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White
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
then.
Our relative velocity looked like it went
to zero.
Here, I thought, we were out around
500 or 600 feet.
F.d thought we were: probably in
closer than that.
Yes.
I thought we were in a little closer.
I put in a total of around· 9
feet/second in
the first minute and a half after we turned
around .
I think we commented together on the speed with
which the booster was going away ~om us .
Right
off the bat it looked like it wa.s- -it surprised
me that it actually looked like it separated ·rrom
us as fast as it really-­
It looked like it had a lot more velocity than
the
4 or 5
J feet/second I added at t he
separation.
It looked to me , as an off- the- top- of:.
my-head-guess , that something in the spacecraft
separation thing had really built up a lot of
relative velocity between the booster and the
spacecraft.
I don't know why or how.
Al so , it
looked like we weren ' t
inplane anymore. It was
actually out-of-plane so that we had an out- of­
plane relative velocity that I took out .
I
pointed at the booster because , obviously, if
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