Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965
NASA-UAP-D017 · page 184 of 290
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176 White McDivitt White McDivitt OO~~FIDEt-4TIAL slightly, and we went ahead and fired t he forward-firing t hrusters for 1 second. We didn ' t get any change in our scanner ignore light configuration. It was out and it stayed out during the entire thruster check. So I guess that it operated all right . We 'll summarize all of our scanner comments at this time. You want me to read some of these? Yes. Why don ' t you read off some of the comments you have in there. They' re in your writing. You might read the first page and I ' ll read the second, since they I re in mine. We went to Horizon Scan Mode of control for about the last day of flight , and left it in that mode just about until we retrofired. I 'd like to read out some of the comments that I made here as we lost the scanner, when we got the scanner ignore light. At 16:03 Greenwich Time , or atout 72 hours elapsed time , I turned on the Horizon Scan Mode in about a 27degree nose down attitude with a pitch up rate of about 2 degrees/ second. The Horizon Scanner Mode added pulses GO~~FIDE~~TIAt