There seem to be some difficulty with this line. This is Gemini Control, Houston, excuse the mechanical delay. The Gemini 8 crew should be about beginning a yaw maneuver with the Agena. They will use the Agena thrusters yawing at about as much as 180 degrees at the rate of about a degree and a half per second. They then will check the Agena gyros and perform additional yaw maneuvers before going into a series of bending mode tests, which will call for an Agena yaw thrusters as well as spacecraft thrusters. And also, during this period as we approach the Coastal Bentry Quebec, they are to perform a fuel cell purge and a little later, they will again exercise the secondary propulsion system when they're back over the Rose Knot Victor. We have some tape conversation for you from the Tananarive station. In this conversation, there are questions about the receipt of some commands that went up to the Agena. According to the Flight Director, the commands were transmitted from the Hawaii station, earlier, and again from the Rose Knot Victor. We got a valid indication that they have been received, then as the spacecraft computer looked at the commands and there seemed to be disagreement on exactly what commands were in. We suspect right now, that the programming may be a bit off in the computer for this particular case. Want to underscore it there, there appears to be no problem with the computer, they certainly worked very well coming into the rendezvous. But in this particular area of the program, there may have been improper loading some disagreement with the actual commands that went up for the Agena system. Here now is the Tananarieve conversation.

This is Gemini Control, Houston. We've encountered some trouble in the flight. Neil Armstrong has backed off from the Agena. He reported this trouble occurred at approximately 7 hours into the flight. We were advised of it some 5 to 6 minutes ago over the Coastal Sentry Quebec. The present situation is, he's using the rate one of his RCS rings to maintain attitude and we are watching the situation very carefully. This is Gemini Control, Houston.

This is Gemini Control, Houston again. Apparently the last transmission was not received by all stations, so we repeat. Trouble has developed in the flight of Gemini 8. While docked with the Agena, the configuration apparently got in a maneuver which Neil Armstrong did not like. He elected to undock and back off from the Agena. It is also our understanding that his maneuvering system, his onboard maneuvering system, that is his big thrusters on the adapter are inoperative. He is using one of two rings in his Reentry Control System to maintain his attitude during flight. It is possible that the flight may be terminated early. This trouble developed, according to Armstrong, at 7 hours into the flight. It was passed on to us some 10 minutes ago while the spacecraft was over the Coastal Sentry Quebec. We presently read 7 hours, 34 minutes into the flight and we are standing by. This is Gemini Control, Houston.