Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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information about the boosters) they put this in­
formation on the test conductor' s loop too .
We
ha.d too many guys talking.
I think if just CAP
COM talked from thr ee minutes on down we would
be all right .
This is the way I thought it was going to happen,
and then from three minutes on down it really got
busy with the yak , yak, yak of everybody talking.
I don't lmow whether we got off the Booster ~st
C)nductor's loop or not, but at final countdown,
Al gave me
2 minutes , 1 1/2, 1, 30, 20 , 10 , 9,
8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
I got a similar count
from the Spacecraft Test C~nductor but it turned
01 ·.t that they were a second out of sequence on
the countdown and Al was giving me 10 and our
Spacecraft Test Conductor was giving me 9.
So it
went ten-nine, nine-eight, eight-seven.
They
were at the same t ime .
All I knew was that we
were getting close to engine ignition and then it
started .
So, we got a little over-communicated
there .
I think t hey kept us adequately informed
on the hold.
As a matter of fact , I ' d say we got
over-informed there at the end.
We had too many
guys keeping us informed and I think the pendulum
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