Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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When it came out of the night and we saw it out ('"
there in the daylight- ­
Right .
I 'd estimate 30 degrees down.
It was above the horizon, just barely .
Or was it
above the horizon?
No, it was below the horizon.
I ' d say it wasn't more than ten or twelve degrees
below the earth horizon, but below our local hori­
zon. It was in the neighborhood of 30 degrees .
If you looked out level to what you would call
level--but you lmow the horizon tilts away from
you , so- - .
So here again we were faced witr. the same kind of
problem- -to cater. up with the booster. _What I
should have done was to retrofire right then to
drop down , get a lower orbit, and come back up.
But we had to get to the booster right then or we
weren ' t going to get to it, becauae we had the
mission to take p~otographs of it across the
States .
So I thought if I could close with it at
10 or 15 feet/second we could at least overcome
our problem.
So I aimed behind it , so to speak,
and down , and I thrusted that way trying to get
enough closing velocity down and another one that
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