Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
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It looked to me like we could have gotten as close
as 200 feet .
It was extremely difficult to tell
how close we were. What's your guees , Ed? Just
pick a number.
I wouldn't say that close.
I 'd say you ' re more in
the ball park in the neighborhood of 700 to 1000
feet.
Okay.
You could be magnitudes off.
Before we got to Carnarvon, I remember, we were in
reasonably good shape, because I had finally
gotten down to the booster.
I felt if I could
just keep it down near the booster we would be all
right .
Then it looked to me l ike we were closing
rather rapidly. So I thought we were going to get
next to it and then we were going to be all right.
'I'he reason I felt this was because I could see the
two lights. It must have been rotating in such a
manner that I could see the two lights.
Almost
every fifth or tenth time they blinked I could see
them.
I could see two of them.
So I knew by the
distance that we were in quite close and everything
looked pretty good then.
And then for a long,
long, long period of time after that I never