Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
That ' s right, I just don't think we should
scrub the flight because of fatigue.I don ' t think we
should do that.
We weren ' t approaching this point.
White
We had a long way to go.
1. 5 Environmental Control System
McDivitt
I think we ought to get this water management
panel squared away and everybody figure out what
we are supposed to do with those switches.
I
don ' t think we should be arguing about where the
switches are supposed to be on the launch pad. If
I hadn't asked somebody where the waste manage­
ment switches should be we would have probably
launched with it in · EVAPORATOR.
I knew that
i t wasn't supposed to be in the evaporator.
At
one of the ten thousand briefings we got on it, we
were told it shouldn't be there.
We ought to get·
this kind of stuff squared away before launch day.
Thirty minutes before lift-off we were arguing
about where that switch was supposed to be.
White
I wasn't confident that they knew where they
wanted that switch to be.
McDivitt
Well, I didn ' t think we should have it in the eva­
porator.
So, I think that water panel could have
cost as much as a wee~s slip on our launch because
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