Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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definitely see the rotation of the booster and
spacecraft combination.
As we continued on up,
I was watching within the spacecraft and outside,
also.
I could see the pitch program initiated.
I could hear Jim call it out, and I could
actually see it on my instruments and also see
it out the window.
BECO's the next topic.
Why don't you go through that .
I think I just
looked out one time to see the horizon for just
a second.
Why don ' t you go through the rest of
those there and read them off?
Okay, at BECO I was looking in also.
I was
waiting for the staging and I had my attention
inside, and I didn ' t see the big sheet ·of •
flame that John and Gus described coming from
around the separation of the first stage.
So,
there wasn't anything other than the. normal feel­
ing of the separation.
As far as :'visual aight­
ingt- were concerned, I didn ' t see anything else
at staging.
As we started to nose over, I saw
the horizon coming up and I called that out to
Jim.
I think that might have been ~hen I looked out,
I
but Im not really sure I could see anything at
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