Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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and get a fixed attitude stabilized in this manner. It would probably be rather.....(unstable?)

I have the feeling it would be very stable. Some of our section sitings over there, particularly when we were working on the Apollo siting, where I was keeping a certain fixed two stars on a certain location on my window, and Jim just doing it over there with pulses.....

He didn't have the radical on....

He had the radical on. On, yeah.

............You were well within a degree taking a few minutes of oxygen. You can hold it within a degree or a quarter of a degree.

You can get the exact answer to this if you just analytically....

Do you have the data?

No, I can't quote it to you off-hand. It's not in the order of hundreds of degrees per second.

My overall impression was that we were more stable that I thought we would be when we wanted to stabilize.

....We've looked at our agenda here, and it's got some general questions in the end, get a good stabilization study going....

That's fine, were there any more questions on the terrain photography?

I've got a question. Can a fellow, you know, look at the movies and see if we got any terrain on there?

Yeah, as a matter of fact, I got the impression from what you showed as yesterday afternoon, that there's quite a bit of terrain.

And also some of the 55-millimeter films.

Yeah.

Did you know there were some pictures taken outside of the window

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