Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
White
McDivitt
White
I was in a horizontal position and I thrusted
down using my top thrusters, so that I would
try to keep the booster in my view.
Thrusting,
chasing the booster, and alining the platform
all at the same time--those are the kinds of
things you have to do.
So, I never did get the
platform alined.
I did not have time.
I got
it somewhere near local horizontal .
If I was
within pl us or minus 5 degrees in the axis, I
think I did a reasonably gooi job,
The
Thruster Control Mode Checks that took place at
15 minutes I didn't do as such.
I would just
thr ow it into a different mode and thrust.
I
just did it with a catch~as~atch-can.
I did
check out the different modes.
Everything seemed to be working.
You weren ' t
getting My thrusters that weren' t f iring, and
your modes all seemed to me to be working
pr operly.
It looked pretty good.
I had one comment on the Co~munications System
Check.
Remember we lost good communications
with No . 1 UHF and we switched to No . 2 and
seemed to have good communications with it