Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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So did I. The way I felt was that I knew that we
had to be as miserly with the fuel as we possibly
could, so we got as much out of as little fuel as
possible.
There wasn' t going to be anything to
change that velocity.
We just went along and I
really didn't care how they were plotting that fuel
on the ground.
I knew that we were starting to
get ahead of the schedule, because I was plotting
it roughly onboard the spacecraft .
I could see we
were ~p above the line that we needed to remain
above to handle our OAMS retrofir~.
Actually, we followed the profile rather closely,
We leveled off there at first, and then when we
started using it , we we~c right down the profile,
We were a little below the line and we just held
the same fuel level until we walked out across it
and got up on top of i+
Then, we went on down
above it.
I think the controls and the switches were all
satisfactory.
I think so too.
The attitude controller worked
fine and dandy.
We didn't have any trouble with
it. The stick forces weren't too high.
We didn't
get a chance to use it in any other mode besides