Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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fashion.
It was all over. It looked to me like i t
was rotating in three axes in a completely unpro­
grarnmed manner. It might have been that the roll
nozzle was flopping around and the fuel was turn­
ing it around in different directions.
And as a
matter of fact, at this time we should go back and
draw a picture of what the fuel looked like and
what was coming out of the nozzle.
The booster
was tumbling and you could see the fuel squirting
out of the roll nozzle in a big fan like this. I
had the impression that if the booster were per­
fectly stationary, the fuel would have been coming
out of the nozzle in a great big cone the way you
would expect it to, but because the booster was
tumbling so rapidly it was coming out in a long,
twisted- - l ike a horn of plenty.
It was very ob­
vious; you could see it, and ther e wssn ' t any doubt
about the fact that there was a lot of fuel coming
out .
Whether this was contributing some thrust to
it or not I don't know.
White
I want to comment on something that was quite an
experience for me.
When I called out to you, I
was looking down at what I thought , since it was
pitch black, was the sky.
I could see little
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