Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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window and I could see it. Well, I started
alining the platform and left it there for a
couple of minutes .
The booster started falling
again, descending below us.
It actually went
out of my view in the window.
At the time
though our relative velocities were quite small,
so I felt I could let it go for another 30 seconds
or a minute and not have it ge~~r away__!rom
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me .
It looked like it was coming toward me again ,
but going below.
So , I allowed myself about
another minute and I pi tched down and looked for
it. It appeared that during that minute it had
gone a lot farther down than I had expected it to
go .
Yes , I was surprised.
Remember that it looked like
the orbit was sure something different than we
predicted.
Yes. It looked to me like the booster and the
spacecraft weren't in anything that even resem­
bled the same orbit, at the rate it was descending.
I don ' t know what the range rate was at that time.
It looked like it was a lot more than a foot/
second, though.
I don ' t know what it was.
I
quickly pitched back up to zero-zero-zero and
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