Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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I was convinced of that, too, after the mix-up
in putting all the water in the lithium hydroxide
tan.ks.
There would have been about a 30 minute four-day
mission.
The people that built the thing don't know how
it is supposed to go.
They had better decide
this and let us know.
I felt that George Roe at
the Cape knew what was going on except the Cape
personnel got the valves in the wrong position and
almost lost the lithium hydroxide canister full
of water with no water in the tanks.
I ' m not
pointing a finger at George Roe • I think he'·s
pret.ty knowledgeable about the system.. Maybe
somebody just wasn't following directions.
But
somebody ought to find out about the water
management system and make it clear to everybody
how it is supposed to be operated.
You can hear the prevalve~ both first and second
s tages. The prevalves and the fluid gushing are
very loud noises comparable to the engine gim-­
baling. I wasn't really aware that they were
~
going to be that loud.
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