Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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White
McDivitt
saw two lights again.
I don ' t lmow if you did or
not .
I kept looking and there was a single light
and a single light and a single light, and I
didn't lmow where I was with respect to the boos­
ter.
And then I started getting the impression
without really seeing the double lights , I guess,
that it was going away very rapidly.
Maybe I did
see two lights and I just don' t remember it now.
My impression was that the light was getting
fainter .
I think that must have been it.
I think that
must have been it. But all of a sudden I got the
impression that it was leaving me at a rapid rate .
I
It wasn't that easy to see.
During the few times
that the booster was up against the sky back-
I ground it was easy to see , but when it was down
against a ground background, it was very difficult
to see . I think it was just before we got to Car­
narvon that I felt we were in good shape.
And then
as we passed Carnarvon , I remember calling I could
see the lights of the city.
Well, during this
period of time all of a sudden I thought it was
starting to pull away again.
So I started
thrusting at it again. And I never really got the
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