Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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White
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
White
Well , in the Air Force portion of it , we can start
right off by saying that the stars they wanted
Ui to run the operation on--I
think, Series
No . 4-­
No , that was the last one.
They gave us Series 1
to start wi.th.
--which was the daylight.
The daylight operations
didn't prove feasible at all .
We couldn' t see
the stars and if we could have, we didn ' t have
a good horizon to r un them on .
So it became
apparent to us that that run was lost right in
the beginning,when we first came out of the
darkness and lost all the s t ars .
We also got
t he big picture t hat t he sext ant was not going
to be too easy to use . It was going to be
impossible to use without using some fuel , and
it was going to be dam hard to use when we used just
pulses of fuel. We needed some kind of stabiliza­
tion.
At least I thought so .
We might say that the lightbulb in the cormter
readout for the angle was burned out.
That burned out within t wo seconds after we got
up there, I think.