Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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page six,I have already covered the things on
platform alinement.
I did not have time to aline
the platform.
I tried to get it to somewhere near
the local horizontal so that in case we had to do
a retrofire I ' d be able to do the Etrofire .
I
brought the spacecraft up to a pitch attitude that
I hoped was zero,but I never got the spacecraft
alined to see that it was zero.
So we really went
into this thing without my ever having seen a zero
pitch attitude on the spacecraft .
Obviously
I didn ' t get a chance to see the 30 degree pitch
down on the retrofire attitude.
I didn't really
have time to look out the window and do a single
thing that would have prepared us to reenter at
2-1 because we were so busy keeping track of-­
You know another thing I ' d say also is that we
were eternally optimistic.
We felt we were going
to aline the platform and watch the booster at the
same time.
As a matter of fact, while I was trying to get the
alinement it became apparent to me that I could not
aline it. I even thrusted vertically-­