Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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and down.
We did the pitch with rolling, and
here I pitched up and rolled left and right, but
we did not do the pitch-down, rolling left and
right because of a fuel limitation and a time
limitation.
We had another experiment that had to
be done.
We had to get the platform off and we
had a limited amount of time to accomplish this.
I sort of felt that the check was very well
accomplished at this time,
The data is in the
data book.
I saw no need to waste time doing the
other two maneuvers , especially since we were
so limited on time and fuel ,
Did you have any­
thing to add to that, Ed?
White
No .
I think that the remark that the data is
in the book is adequate.
9, 5 Horizon Scanner Check
McDivitt
The first one is the sun.
I think the best wasy
to do it is to have Ed read out the comments
that we wrote in the data book as we did this .
We started with the blunt- end into the sun.
White
We started blunt-end into the sun and we got
·the scanner ignor e light momentarily as the sun