Spacelog Gemini 3

Yeah, man. That's beautiful!

What else have we got to do? Scanners should be on secondary. Now we're going to yaw 180° here.

Hey, look out there. There's some land.

Yes.

What time is it?

4 —

Must still be over Canaries.

You're a noisy eater.

Oh, no!

What? What did you drop?

Look at 'em jumping around down there.

What elapsed is it now, Gus?

1:56.

How do you like this going backwards? You can tell you're going backwards too, can't you?

Never a doubt.

That's not bad for applesauce.

I'll take a bite of applesauce, if you don't eat it all.

It's getting tough to squeeze out of there.

If we had some pork chops to go with it, we'd be all right.

Yes.

Here it is back. What are you going to do with it now?

What, the applesauce?

Yes.

I don't know, the tablet fell off. I'm not going to put the germicide tablet in, because I don't know where it is.

Let's see what my retrofire attitude looks like going backwards.

Okay.

16° nose down is what it is.

Yep. I'll be there in a minute.

Oh, man!

I'll tell you, man, you don't need anything to tell your yaw, do you?

No, I'll tell you, I need some of these missions where I can look out of the window. I haven't looked out of this window a second and a half. It's beautiful!

You know, if I lined up the yaw, I'd line it up right there. What does it look like to you?

Look's to me like you got it, Gus.

That's not what the 8-ball shows. It's right there, no doubt about it.

Well, that looks good to me.

Let's try it upside down once.

Okay.

Watch everything float to the ceiling.

There's 60 left, okay?

That's 60 left.

No. Well, yes, let's see.

That's inverted.

Okay.

There's 60 left.

That's what I figured.

There you go.

Kano.

The sun's hot.

It is.

Suit inlet temperature is still holding at 58, though.

Boy, this is a manual dexterity test.

Yes.

That stuff is really trying to crawl out of there.

John Yardley loses his bet. Cabin temperature is up to 92°.

Oh, man!

It's bad, isn't it?

That sun is something else.

Yes.

Can you stow these back over there in your side?

Yes.

Somehow.

You don't need that towel, do you?

Yes, I'm going to, very shortly.

Well, I'd better get it out then.

Well, I don't think I'll need it, but I might.

Well, we've got a scanner light on secondary.

There, it went out. I guess I was looking at it in the sun.

Yes.

Hope that stops it. now we've got it again.

The sun's around there. That sun's pushing it off.

Yes.

Either that or our ball is out of alinement.

What time's it supposed to be next time. Do you remember?

No.

You don't mind if I make an inflight modification to the pressure suit, do you?

What are you going to do?

Just cut a strap.

I hope you don't cut a hole in it.

No, don't worry.

We've got a scanner ignore light …

Okay, let's start this thing right now.

Okay, it's pitching up slightly. Going up above zero. I don't have a scanner light. man, is it dark!

I don't have a scanner light, but I don't think it's doing right. We're now 20° above the horizon and have no horizon. It's bringing me back down to 180.

It's dark.

Yes.

Hey, look at those thrusters glowing!

Where?

Over on the right side. I think it's the sun shining on them, or something. Is the sun on my side? Sunset?

It's back behind us some place.

You mean the RCS thrusters?

Yes.

I can't see them.

Can you see yours?

No.

Well, I see mine shining.