Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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a lot of firing, too.
I started out checking the
Rate Command , so I thought I might possibly have
one bad pitch thruster that was causing a rolling
moment that was bei ng counteracted by the yaw-roll
jets. When I did it in Direct, however, it wasn' t
doing that . It wasn't rolling either, so I felt
that it must just be a very tight deadband that
was trying to hold us in there.
So, the operational
checks were all right.
The only thing we had to
monitor on the system was the temperature and the
pressure of the propellant.
It seemed to hold
pretty well.
I have some comments on that.
I kept a running
log of them as we went along.
The temperature
started out at 75 degrees and 3000 pounds.
It held
that way pretty well until about the 65th hour, when
the temperature gradually went down.
The temperature
decreased to a point where we started getting the
RCS heater lights that we noted earlier.
We got
about eight series of RCS heater lights . It took
about 5 minutes to extinguish the light.
It was
t he A-ring,then the B-ring, and then the A-ring.
I t seemed to alternate each time back and forth and
it came on for about 15 to 20 minute periods of