Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
that first phase of mission sequen~es that I
first mentioned.
I think the next thing we
should do :;s go through the interim o~bits, about
50 or 55 , or ho~ever many there were, where we set
abo~.1t to save up enough fuel to do soJ1ething con­
structive, to check on our orbit to see what it
was, to see how we were d,3caying, what our life­
time expecta':lcy would be, and perform the exper­
iments that we'd initial ly set out to do on ~ur
flight plan. Although, it's not going to be of
much use to go through it in a chronological
ord.er, I suppose that is probably the best way.
As I just finished saying, we're not going to
get a.'1 awful lot 0 1.1t of going thro·.1gh the flight
plan sequentially, but we'll do it quickly and
then we ' ll co:ne back and discuss each experiment
o~ operation, check as entity in itself, a"ld
we'll dis8uss the systems as an entity, too .
We ' ll do this, generally, in elapsed time .
Going back to the EJVA for J.1st one moment . I'd
like to say that the use of the ma'111al heaters on
ECS o bottle was abo'.lt two f ive-min1te periods
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separated by about 10 min:.ites.
We really
did~1.' t need an awful lot of ma.ni.lal heater when wa