Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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three days I really didn't have anything with
which to establish any confidence. It was just
an unknown.
Jim did the majority of the work in this area and
I think his comments reflect my opinion also.
On the pad we did the thruster check that we
wanted to. We went around one whole cycle and
got nothing.
We went around another whole cycle
and got nothing until we got to the last one.
We were going yaw left pitch-down, yaw right
pitch-up, yaw left pitch-down, yaw right pitch­
up.
When we got to that second pitch-up, I heard
the thrusters fire for the first time. ·
You can hear them. It was very distinct.
That's right.
And then we went around and yawed
left and they fired again.
We -waited 20 seconds
and fired a yaw left again, and they fired again.
These were the bottom manifold jets. We said,
"Okay, we're ready to go.", and that was the end
of it. So, it -was a pretty straightforward check.
The inflight checks--I got my operational checks
on the OAMS systems while chasing the booster
around.
I had Direct, Pulse, and Rate Command in
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