Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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aviator assignments including a three year tour as a test pilot at the Naval Air
Test Center at Patuxent River, Maryland.
His duties there included service as
program manager for the F4H Weapon System Evaluation.
Lovell was graduated
from the Aviation Safety School of the University of Southern California.
He
served as flight instructor and safety officer with Fighter Squadron 101 at the
Naval Air Station at Oceana, Virginia.
Lovell has logged 3,000 hours flying
time, including more than 2,000 hours in jet aircraft.
Love II was selected as an astronaut by NASA in September 1962.
In addition to
participating in the overal I astronaut training program, he has been assigned
special duties.
These duties included monitoring design and development of
recovery and crew life support systems.
These include space suits, environmental
control system and developing techniques for lunar and earth landings and recovery.
The launch trajectory
for the GT-4 mission
wi 11 be similar to that
flown by GT-3. ln­
sertion wi 11 be at the same
altitude, 87 miles, but
the first apogee of GT-4
will be 161 miles. The
Gemini launch sequence
is shown in Figure 20.
FLIGHT PLAN
In addition to the various
orbi ta I maneuvers to be
performed during the mis­
sion, as ca Iled out in
Table II, other activities
will be taking place as
is shown below in Table
111, a summarization of
the Flight Plan.
The
consumable items loaded
onboard the spacecraft
are shown in Table IV.
TRAJECTORY
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MODE 111: SHUTDOWN
j •SEPARATE SIC
5:10 CHANGE -·-·-
•RETRO &REBffllY
A200.m
ABORT MOOl
SEflllNCE
L
2:48 START
11:SHUTDOWN
T
RADIO GUIDANCE j.SALVO RETROS
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1:40 CHANG
ABORT MOOE
1:19 MAX Q
2:34 BECO
~.ET11SON RETRO
I
5.5G·s
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TU 75,000'
1·­
~ 42.000'
IIElAYEO AQIE U:SfUTOOWN
•WAIT 5SECONDS
25.000'
•SALVO RETim
•JETTISON RmO
SECTIII
0:50 CHANGE ABORT····-···-·
15.000'
•I.AIIN SBIIIIG
MODE
Q:23 START PITCH
2500'
Q:20 STOP ROLL 012•
l:EJECT
2000·
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Q:10 START ROLL oas·
:OO LIFT OFF-- ... - _______...
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RANG -NAUTICAL MIES ­
FIG. 20
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