Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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We thought that if the booster was stationar~
we could get in close to it .
We could
essentially fly a formation by it with mo~e
a:titude co:1trol than translation control ,
which l eft me then free to help F.d assemble all
this stuff for the EV~.
Well, it turned out that
I didn ' t dare take my eyes off the booster for
half a second.
So all tne things that we were
supposed to do together up until the t ime we
f inally said goodby to the booster, Ed had to
accomplish himB11lf.
I was completely unable to
help him.
The only thing I ma.~aged to do was
to unstow the 16 lllDl camera bracket and put the
16 mm camera on.
I ~ouldn' t quite get at that one.
No .
I could nardly get to it.
So we w~re
probably behind at the hour mark.
Right?
Yes .
Not by an awful lo~.
I knew we had a probl em with the booster, and I
was more concerned with our problem with the
booster t han getting the gun and stuff o:it
then.
I felt that they w~re both tied together
and once w~ l ost t he booster we didn ' t have a
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