Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Pulse. It seemed to work all right in Pulse.
don't really have any comments to make on the atti­
tude controller.
As a matter of fact, I didn't ~se any Rate Command .
Didn't you really?
We didn't use the Rate Command.
I got to use
Direct a couple of times . I used Pulse a lot .
Everytime you'd go to sleep, I ' d really have a bal]
I could tell that by the wiggling.
No. That was real ly great--flying that spacecraft .
That ' s right, and I think Pulse is the mode.
You
ca.n do a lot with it.
With a little bit of planning
you could get to the attitude--if you start out 5
or 6 minutes ahead of time.
That's what we were
doing.
At 10 minutes before I was supposed to be
at a certain atti tude I ' d start, and one or two
little pulses and you'd--boop, boop, boop, boop-­
th€ bad thing was if you were in an attitude where
you couldn ' t see the horizon and didn ' t know where
you were.
You would give it a couple of pulses
and nothing would happen, and you ' d have to give
it a couple of more pulses. It ' d take a long time
sometimes before you would get to where you could
see.
As a matter of fact, if at 5 minutes before
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