Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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up later on was not the thing to do.
We had to be
all done at a certain time.
We had to be with the
booster when we came back into daylight.
That was
it; that was the thing.
We had to be with the
boost er, because we had to take those pictures .
Then we had to be with the booster again an hour
and a half after that so that we could do the EVA
right next to it .
And with those kinds of time
constraints you don ' t have time to perform a ren­
dezvous.
You've got to get with it right then, but
we just couldn't get with it right then.
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You know another thing too; I'm darned glad we
didn ' t use any 10 feet/second initially to sepa­
rate with.
I think we could have used something
in the terms of 1 or ·2, feet/second and that
would have been fine.
Don"-' t you?
I cut it short .
I only burned about
5 seconds,
and I stopped.
You have been doing that in all your simulations
so I knew you were going to do that.
You can even
cut it less. It was amazing to me the separation
you get i mmediately.
I t almost seemed like we had a posigrade rocket
on the spacecraft and a retrograde rocket on the
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