Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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White
McDivitt
daylight for ten minutes or so, that i t was hope­
less, and I told that t o F.d .
I told him I
thought we had lost the booster for good.
I
don ' t mean I didn ' t see i t but t hat we weren ' t
going to get back down to it .
He agreed with me .
Yes.
I think I could have gotten to the booster in a
dignified , normal , slow, easy manner if we di dn ' t
have the constraint on us of being next to the
booster in the first daylight pass over the States,
and taking pictures , prepare for the EVA , and be r eady
to emerge from the spacecraft an hour after we
came out of the daylight on our first pass , which
was about two hours into the flight .
I just felt
that if I had had more time, I could have gone
ahead and done some of this without using brute
force to overcome the difference between the
booster and myself.
I could have gone into a
l ower orbit and chased it t hat way.
I could have
just gone horizontal and r etrofired and fallen
away from the thing initially and caught back up
with it l ater on, but it was getting so far away
from us to start with that to purposely put your­
self fart her away from it so that you could catch
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