Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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you have to Go back and get moment of impulse of the control system,
then apply it to the moment of inertia of the spacecraft, and then
do the same with the Gemini ....
No , in this case he ' d be moving a camer a .
Pardon?
Move Lhe camera to control the angle .
Do you jnst hold it?
You hold it, yeah.
We could take them as well as you could in Mer­
cury, 1:i.ccording to how stable Lhey tie it .
lt/s quite pos:.;ible that you couJ.d stabilize the spacecraft better
than you could stabilize Lhe . . . . .
Yeah, can you get that in the spacecraft . . ... . Thank you.
Uh-huh.
I would (use ) the spacecraft to stabilize it... to hold it out the
window, kinda hold i t out the wondow, you have to, you don ' t have
lo move the stabilizer.
The spacecraft is moving, that means that you 've gotta, you have to
move your hand al the , an opposite rate, or the opposite direction,
L.lie :rn.me t·at.e thal the ::.;pucecrafl 1::.; moving, I don' t think that you·
w.1.nl t.,,i do Lfltd, ,
l>CCt.t.USC yrnl ' ve 1;;0L U stabi liY.er thing in your
111-.1.nd lioldl n1.( it,, what, you \vould p rubauly do is brace your hand up
f.t.ga:i.n:; L U1e s.i.de of the ::.;pE1.c:ecraft lin<i take the pi ctur e , then you' re
going to get . . . . . .. .
Yeah, you sec we've got a site on the spacecraft (bl astoff ) that has
a rud.ical Uw.t you ' :re go.i.nµ; to light i 'or night so with the minimum
im._p11J:;e Lim!. we have in Lhe spacec:rart, we could fix it on a star ,