John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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I had an airfield and I had a town so I-­
You took some fixed-molll'lted 200 mm pictures .
Yes .
I took about two pictures of it.
I couldn't
take a series.
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That ' s right.
You didn ' t have the gunsight to
t r ack with either.
No .
I just put it in the middle of the window.
At this time our orbit was 88. 1 by 148. 7, so we
had come down about 7 or 8 miles.
D-9 and Apollo
4, were around 51 hours.
I don't know exactly
how that fit into this schedule that we were doing.
We were switching back and forth from elapsed time
to Greenwich Mean Time so we got a little confused
on these.
We got updates of the PLA ' s and CLA ' s.
This plan says , "Prepare for D-6." Well, we didn't
have a D-6 Experiment anymore.
Ed went to sleep
again at 54 hours .
Yes.
At 54: 30 I' ve got myself asleep.
Ed asl eep at 54, and I have him waking up at 59:15.
That was when we started trying to nake you sleep
a little longer, Ed.
Half our notes here are elapsed time and half of
them are in Greenwich Mean Time.
I think this is
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