Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
said all of the tape dumps to this time had
been exce11en t .
At a GMT of 12 16 00 I got a comment : "No fuel ,
but do a Flight Track Orientation. " This is
like saying, drive from here t o ~he drug store,
but don ' t use any gasoline--a.~d don't take the
car.
So as I flopped over near around 12:16, I
looked down to the ground .
We could do a Flight
Track Orientation pretty well, considering that
we had this movable orbital map and we had a
pretty good idea of where we were going to be
to start with so we could pick out where we
were.
Got a map update at 10 17 49, ·73 degrees
West.
A tape dump at Canaries on Rev 13 and at
Carnarvon at Rev 14, Around 19 hours , I checked
on our orbit and it was 155.7 by 88.
At 11 52 43, turned the C-Band Adapter Switch
to CONTINUOUS .
At 11 59 23 we turned it back
to COMMAND .
This is Greenwich time.
All the
stuff in the flight plan such as the Orbit
Navigational Checks and the Apollo Landmark
Invest igation were not done. We were doing tape
-EQNFIDENTtAL