Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
we extended it .
The way it operates is, it has
three positions:
EXTEND, OFF, and REI'RACT.
I t
was in the OFF position and I put it to the EX­
TEND position . Then I put it back to the OFF
position. Periodically, throughout 7-he flight
we put it to the EXTEND position and back to OFF
to make sure that if it got screwed up the first
time that it would go on out. The first extension
was supposed to be with the spectrometer-magnetom­
eter on .
So, I checked to see the circuit
breakers were on, and they were on.
I turned
the spectrometer-magnetometer on and then I ex­
t ended the boom.
And in this way the experiment­
ers hope to get some indication from the lines
of force that they were picking up if the thing
actually extended at that time .
I hope t hey got
it .
Incidentally, you got a pretty good operation on
the swizzle stick,
I was asleep and Jim was
doing that on my side .
That's right .
I did it with the swizzle stick
way over on Ed' s side. I didn't aline the
platform or anything.
We were in free drifting
flight at this time .
As soon as we finished the