Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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Just a second, Bob. You had a system that was strapped to you that had automatic stabilization and translation of a person, well, than you've got the whole of a box or something that you were holding when you were down in one corner of it. I'm sure that you wouldn't have enough stabilization control authority to handle the translation of something like that, because you're putting your engine...

Well, it depends on his mass. Again you said it's mass. If it were magnesium bonds or something, then...

I think we're asking...

Yeah, well I know what we're talking about--we're talking about building a space station. I'm as anxious to do that as the next guy, but this isn't quite what we looked into. I appreciate your question; we certainly have to fact up to it...

On-stabilization, uh, suppose you were trying to take off (both pictures) on Gemini, compared to Mercury...

Would it take you what?

Suppose you try to take one photo picture of the star, say three stars, uh, what do you think your sensitivity in terms of angular accuracy would be for, say, ten seconds or three seconds focus, angular-wise, but (who) took pictures of the horizon and... changes four degrees per second.

Oh, does that... to the dyed balloon?

Well, it's a very special question on generalization, you know, you're moving around, how can you, can you counteract the motion on the vehicle, for instance, the Gemini capsule ... to take stabilizer...

Yeah, you'd have to, if you want to compare it with Mercuey stabilizer,

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