Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
White
say we h~dn
I t done to ffi3" sati.sfacti.,_.,n t"le fi.r;;t
time ,1as t:J check the inlet an<l 011tlet positions
of the locks , and I didn ' t have my tho?rmal
gloves on.
It turnAd out I didn ' t need them .
Also , d 1r.i11g this pe.clod of timr-i 1 R..l i.ned. tht,
pL1tfor1n, ;.rh.i.ch war. ~onpl ~tely in .i.s:i1 i.nP.d .
It
w:.:1s probably alined within a c-:iuple d,=1g1.-ees ,
but as we went a-r.ou:'1d in Orbit Rate it g0t
farthP.C' anrt farther 0;1-'; of tol?r-:in.~e .
So , I
m:uvv~d ·to a
1.i.1e the pl-:i.tfo.rra.
Here agllin , I
m.i..ght com,1.mt on the fan t that ou:::- ini ti,9.l
flight plan was so optimistic that it was
almoat unbelievable .
The both o~ ua wurk~d full
time :>n doing r10 tn; 'lg ex•)ept pc,~par.ine for EVA,
aJ1.11 we dldn ' t quite gHt thA job done .
I ca11 ' t
believe that we could ·'lA.ve poss ibly flown
f o:-mation w:i. th the booster and taken pictures
of it and all the other thi 'lgs t:i.at we had
and even comH close to compl-?ting it .
Well , the way we wo11ld h'3.ve had to do it, would
have been witho11t a checklist.
I would h~va had
to just go ahead :.md ~1:>ok c~verything •..p .
I
think tl'J could 111-w-3 do,w it satisfact)rily l-i
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