Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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O. K., I'm going to put that....address prefer request for my experiment if that is at all possible to have both pilots on the job for any of your sequence pictures.

Another one's Target of Opportunities if you don't need the controls......
............the ones that we've got you weren't all straightened out..........
.....you don't necessarily pass over them, you know.

The thing they want to take a picture of is over here; it's best to take a picture.

You guys certainly have your eyes open, buy some of those things--
that volcano shot, that reshot structure especially, that's really
going to give us the mileage.

Could you make a comment just on the general stability of the spacecraft, ............pulsing and you stopped once, and you were waiting; how long did it take for rates to build up, for instance, how long could a fellow count on maybe pulling position in general?

Whoever got the rates stopped I'd say it takes him a couple of days for him to get started. There's nothing to make them go except that rotating machinery which is practically nil.....

So, just a matter of the metal break with the jet.........

But you have to remember, though, as you get your rates all stopped, you're inertially fixed and the thing's rotating underneath you, so you're not stopped with the respect that what you want....

Forty degrees per minute....per second.

In the same vein, do you notice any reactive motion in the spacecraft when you're inside, when you disturb it, when you move around at all?

I could feel it moving around, but whether I felt it moving around

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