Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivltt
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fooling with the booster.
I think this was ·.t.n
extremely wise dP.cisioo.
I got to Guaymas and I said the booster was
pull ing aw,zy from us.
We ' d already used abo~t
100
6.V to stay with it, and I r ecommended
that w~ just give up on it.
We had to get a
deeision imm,0idiatel y because I couldn ' t stay
with it and 11ot use f\1el at the same t Lme .
They
came back from Texas.
I talked to Guaymas and
got their confirmation from Texas, which was
only a "Tlatter o.f a couple of m'i.nutes, saying
leave the booster.
Th9.t was about the only
thing tney could 3ay.
Wnite
McDivitt
And this was the time I went after the gun.
Okay.
At th9.t time we reve.rted fror:i station­
keeping, which we were both attempting to do
to EVA preparation, which we both had to do .
I
Thats when Ed went after the gun, and we
st8J'.'ted our ...,c,.;pa::at.i.0.11.
We wc-::-do ' t .rea1 ly
far bt-~h..:.nd llt this time.
All WH had to do was
get the gun out and get the m!'l.neuvering unit.
The cameras we·c(: already out.
You had the
Zeiss too , didn ' t yo~?
-E0NFIDENTJAL