Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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as....because he was actually moving the spacecraft or whether I felt it moving around because he was bumping it, either that, now I didn't move you really, but I'm sure that you quite felt some (stable?), so I don't know whether it was that kind of a thing I was feeling or whether it was the spacecraft effects. I don't......

You don't tend to......you don't tend to pick up these motions from the spacecraft.....

I remember several times when I kicked into the footwell that you mentioned; you could hear that, but I'm sure that was just something that he heard, and that I didn't really disturb the motion of the spacecraft.

What about the externally.....I mean, could you disturb.....

Sure could.

Sure could.

Then you were aware that when he did it?

I sure was.

But I also knew it too. I knew the times when, when I kicked off hard on the spacecraft, so I...and this was the times that I wanted to get all the way out to the end of the cutter, and that was the time that Jim remarked, one time when I really punched off it hard, and when he said, "Hey, you're putting rates of two degrees per second on the spacecraft."

Then I could read the......

I knew I was, when, you know, when you're sitting out on the end of the nose, and you kick down on it, it's going to move.

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