Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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8. 1 Platform
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
8.0 SYSTEMS OPERATION
Actually, the first portion of any alinement is
to cage the thing.
The case of caging the thing
is much more important than the alinement itself.
In the daytime I felt that I could cage the plat­
form to a reference with an error plus or minus
about 3 or 4 degrees in all axes.
Did you think
we could do that wel l?
Only in the daytime.
The yaw was a little problem. It took longer
to get it, but if you kept after it for awhil e,
I felt that you could get down to just a few
degrees.
Within a couple of degrees.
The big thing is that you have to stop your yaw
rates, and then sit there and look outside for
awhile and see which way you're going, straight
ahead or sideways.
If you are going sideways
you rotate around for awhil e and stop the rate
and then look out again.
Ri ght? I felt you could
get the thing caged quite well.
We. didn ' t do it
BEF at all, did we?
We never did cage in BEF.