Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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and I don't know what happened--unless I knew where that was I could really very well get pretty close.

I knew where mine was.

These things, these things are weightless up there but they're not baskets that fly away, once you get these things going, you gotta stop them again, if you started pushing, if you had a...some means of proportion, you've got something like the sides of this table going, and if it hit that wall down there, it'd go right through it.

This is the general question I'm leaning at: Is it, well, I'm trying to get it...with the distinction that you can use it .....automatic tape stabilization......

You'd have the same problem with automatic stabilization that you would..... Sure.

But with automatic stabilization you might, it would set down in fine (resistance to) the motion where with this thing you wouldn't... with a gun you, probably, would you know, how to find, you've gotta find.........

You mean, you have to find your automatic stabilization as soon as you've held on to a ten by ten box, it would stabilize you and it too?

Well, if you could still hold on, and so forth, it would start firing the stabilizer.

Oh, and within limits of this control......

Yeah, I think you would find out that it wasn't designed to do that.

See, if you had a system that would strap to you....

.....It might not be very much, though.

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