Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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10.1 Countdown
McDivitt
White
10.2 Powered Flight
McDivitt
10.0 VISUAL SIGHTINGS
During the countdown the visual sighting I had
was a multitude of wasps sitting on the Rand R
section and crawling all over the windows.
Aside
from that, the sky was clear and I didn ' t see
anything else except the gantry going up and down.
That ' s about it. It appeared to me the wasps were
somewhat confused. They felt that the RCS
nozzle was a very large beehive for them.
The first topic is lift-aff.
At lift-off I was
looking at the instruments and didn
1t -see a
thing.
I think Ed 1s got something here.
White
From the lifk-!£--I cou1d actually feel when we
lifted off -­ the vibrations decreased a great
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McDivitt
White
What about visual sightings?
1
111 get to that.
As we started to move, I felt
I could see the relative motion.
We had a clear
blue sky above us; there werentt any clouds,
but I could see the motion in the sky.
I could
also, as soon as the roll program started,
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