Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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......do you have any figures on what the....used to stabilize the spacecraft.........

I used, uh, translation of bigger percentage than mine was.........

'Cause you're only translating your.........

......need some pictures, sir.

Do what?

.....Did you just fix yourself in one position.....?

Yeah, that's kinda hard (for me) to say, a way to describe; but I used proportionally of the fuel that I used, probably, three quarters of it, translating in about a forth of it just in the pitch and yaw maneuvers that were made, and I didn't try to take out roll..... and I didn't really (put in) very much roll; one time I called--I called out roll on my tape a couple of times, but pitch.....

Could you....did you understand though that when he did these pitch and yaw maneuvers he wasn't trying to translate, he was actually just demonstrating that this could be done?

Yeah, all I did was pitch a little bit or yaw a little bit, yaw, do a little of this type of maneuvers with it, and to see if I could stop it and put in in so that I didn't put all the motions in too.

So it wasn't truly, I see what Jim's driving at...that you don't want to say that to translate from point A to B is three quarters in translation, and a quarter in attitude. That's what you were getting, right?

Yeah.

Of my fuel that I carry in the gun I probably use three quarters in translation and a quarter in attitude, but you don't need very much

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