Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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percent for so long.
We were pretty miserly with that OAMS fuel .
We
set out to save the fuel and we sure did it.
I think that in future missions , if they permit
the crew to use the Pulse Mode in a saving-manner
they could do a lot more with the mission--if you
could use Pulse Mode instead of just free-drifting
around.
In other words, line yourself up so you
can make some decent observations.
Shoot!
We were in Horizon Scan Mode when we got
the last data, and I don ' t think we used any more
fuel than we were when we were in free drift.
That ' s right. We certainly got more out of the
orbit than we did when we were just drifting free.
I 'll tell you one record that we ought to hold.
We've looked at the earth from more different
angles than anybody else in the world.
Well,
maybe not.
I guess the Russians did , but we sure
got a lot of different views of that earth as we
rotated around.
I think the ground information that they called up
on the status of our OAMS wasn't as much as they
could have called up to us, but I 'm really satis­
fied that our OAMS was staying pretty constant.