Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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double blink of the lights for a l ong, long, long
time.
And finally I thought I could see them
blinking again, and they were almost a single
light this time since they were so far away.
And
this occurred over a very short period of time.
TRn minutes? Five minutes?
Yes .
Is that right? Whatever you think, Ed.
Yes .
I fully agree wit} you.
So then I said to Ed, "I ~hink we are losing it ."
So I started thrusting at it again. All of a
sudden it was apparent that the thing wasn't as
close as it had been.
So we started thrusting
at it.
In fact, that was one time you said we had lost it,
didn't you?
I said I think we have lost it.
I had it in
sight.
I didn't saj that I had lost sight of it.
I thought you meant you had lost sight of it.
No.
I still had it all the time.
But it wasn't getting any bigger.
I didn't have e:n:y idea in the world where we were.
And I still couldn't really tell. Finally, we
could see the sky starting to get a little gray
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