Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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operated as I thought they should.
I've already
mentioned I thought Rate Command was a little
sloppier in RCS than it was in OAMS . It certainly
did a fine job of holding the retro attitude during
retrofire. Retrofire attitude control was excellent.
We didn ' t deviate more than about a degree from
the attitude we were supposed to hold, and I had
plenty of authority there.
From my standpoint
it couldn' t have been any better.
I was really
happy about it. I used the Reentry Rate Command
with roll rate gyro off, so that I had essentially
Direct in roll and Reentry Rate Command in pitch
and yaw axes. It had the typical 4 degree deadband
that it was supposed to have. It did do rate damping
as it was supposed to. It performed just the way
it should.
Fd, you want to cover that heater-lights
thing again? I think you've already got that thing
pretty much in detail.
White
I have the precise times at which the lights came
on. It started at about the 64th or 65th elapsed
time hour.
At 06:47, the first light, in the A-ring,
came on.
At 08:23 the A-ring light came on again.
That was the last time.
During that period of time
the A and the B-rings cycled on and off inter­
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