Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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would bring us up to it at the same time; but most
of the thrusting I did was down .
Then we just
didn't gain on it .
I started thrusting retro­
grade with my top thruster, but I was thrusting
more back and downward.
I just absolutely could
not get down to the booster. It kept pulling
away and pulling away until by the time we got
to Hawaii .
You were putting a lot of 6V in there and we just
weren't doing anything.
We just weren't making
any headway.
It continued to pull away from us and it was
falling farther and farther below us until
finally-­
You put in about 40 feet/second to do something
with it and it hadn ' t changed a speck.
By the time we got to Hawaii I told them I thought
we were having difficulty doing it .
k:J.yway, I
had decided by that time that if we were going to
do the mission at all, the only thing we could do
would be to leave the booster.
The fuel was
down to around 75 per cent on my 'gage and the
gage kept going up and down, so it wasn't a
heck of a lot of help.
I had burned around 85 or
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