Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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White
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
McDivitt
I couldn ' t get the yaw.
We had a circui t breaker
off.
Finally, after you did that a couple of times I
looked up and saw we had knocked a circuit breaker
off.
That was one thing that we didn't cover in
EVA that I should have mentioned.
Ed was a real
hazar d to the switch positions in that he was all
over with his feet, arms , and hands - - .
I don't think I threw any though.
Did I? Come
on now.
You' re not guilty until you ' re convicted .
I don ' t know.
You kept putting your foot on the
HF Reentry Antenna Switch and stepping on it.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
As for the atti tude control modes--I mentioned
the Rate Command in OAMS seemed to be tighter than
the Rate Command i n RCS , al though they use the
same electroni cs, the same gyros , and the i,,rhole
thing. It might ha.ve just been my imagination,
but I felt that the Rate Command system in RCS was
a lot looser than it was in OAMS.
The Reentry
Rate Command operated just the way it should . It
had a 4 degree deadband , and handled the spacecraft
very well during reentry.
Direct had a lot more
author ity than I thought it would, but it was