Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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were going to open the prevalves and stuff.
I
wasn't getting it from him.
We were getting a
lot of other information that made a lot of sense
to the Booster Test C:>nductor, but not an awful
lot to us .
There were cal l - outs l ikeVSequence
05003 complete." Well, this just didn' t mean any­
thing to us .
On top of this we had the Spacecraft
~est Conductor calling out the times , and super­
imposed on all of this was Al Shephard, the Cape
CAP COM, calling out events that he was reading
off that went on at certain specified times .
He
called out','Stage 1 prevalvesVand we could hear the
fuel gushing downstairs and the whole booster
rumbling.
He called out','Stage 2 prevalves','and
you could hear the same thing all over again.
I
thought t hat was a lot more meaningful than the
test conductor comments.
I think that was wrong, the way they were doing it .
I think we weren't supposed to be on any loop
except CAP COM at that time.
Well, I think what happened was that we got this
thing over-coordinated.
Al was going to give us
all this information, but then as a result of
GT-3, (Gus and Jolm said they didn ' t get enough
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