Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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White
McDivitt
position, rolled around so that I could just pitch
straight up , and end up at the horizon blunt­
end- forward, heads up,and wings leveJ.
I think
I could ' ve gotten it down to about a minute a.nd
20 seconds.
I felt that I wasted a minute
doing this.
You were taking it slow.
Okay, now, 1 111 go through the Apollo Yaw
Orientation debriefing here. The control mode, as
we said, was Direct when Ed put me into the
condition.
I used the Direct Mode, I believe.
I damped out the rate without any difficulty at
all.
The orientation, I ' ve already gone through.
What I should have done was to go nose-down.
What I did do was that I came to the horizon
first , tried to find a yaw reference and couldn 't,
then went down to the ground.
I should have gone
straight down to the ground.
The time, as I
mentioned, took 2 minutes and 20 seconds.
I
f eel that I could have done it in a minute and 20
seconds.
We
did not get the scanner ignore
light due to acceleration ,
but we
did
get the scanner ignore light when
we
finally