Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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the sun.
The scanner broke lock.
We started
pulsing down for two or three pulses, then
stopped , but the scanner ignore light stayed on
longer than
7 seconds and then it went out .
We pulsed up one or two times
to start
recovering from these initial two or three
pulses that started us down , and then the l i ght
came on again.
It was only off for about
2 or
3
seconds, just a very short time.
We were
at about 30 degrees pitch down at this time.
We
then started pulsing pit ch-down rapidly with
the scanner ignore light on.
We pitched down
and did a 360-degree maneuver in pitch; we
started just about horizontal, pitched down till
we were looking at the ground , continued pitching
down with respect to the spacecraft until we
were horizontal, upside down, now faceing
the opposite direction than we 'd started, and
continued pitching down with r espect to the
spacecraft.
The small end ended up straight up
and we continued pitching down again until we
started coming back back down to the horizon.
did not at any time during this maneuver attempt
to control the spacecraft.
The pitch- down
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