Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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White
McDivitt
8.3 RCS
McDivitt
was 127 feet/second which, incidently, happened
to come out exactly 2 minutes and 40 seconds.
suspect that we selected OAMS retrofire on the basis
of time, rather than on the basis of t::,.V.
Very convenient , wasn't it?
Very convenient. It -was obvious there is no more
difficulty in timing 2 minutes 40 seconds during
our OAMS retrofire than it is during any other
thing.
We had no trouble with it .
I was convinced
that when we got through with it, that was really
the proper conversion factor between t::,.V
and t::,. T.
We had exactly 127 feet/second, and we sure had
the time nailed down.
The operational checks that we did on the RCS
occurred at about TR minus an hour.
When I checked
the system out it seemed like I had a lot less
authority and a lot sloppier Rate Command than I
had in OAMS .
The operational check consisted of
pitching up and down , yawing left and right,
rolling lef+ and right on each ring in Rate Command
and Direct. Direct worked as I expected it to.
In Rate Coremand, however, as I pitched up and down
I noticed that my top left yaw thrus ter was doing