John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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couldn' t be run simultaneously! It looked like
somebody with a little foresight on the ground
could have seen this .
That was really the only bad screwup, I think,
in our flight planning. It was right there .
I think so , too .
So we terminated MSC- 10, al­
though we had enough pictures , I'm sure , to have
completed the experiment . It would have been
nice to use up all the film .
There ' s no sense
in carrying it and not using it .
At 11 :54 we
did the Horizon Scanner Sunset Check--the plat­
form up and alined .
At 12:15 we did the Horizon
Scanner Moonset Check.
At 12: 22 we did the
Apollo Yaw Orientation. At 12: 58 we did the
Horizon Scanner Thruster Check.
At 12: 59 we
did the Horizon Scanner Track Check.
At 13:14 we
did the Attitude Thruster Check.
At 13: 20 we
were supposed to power down and at 13: 20 were
supposed to turn off the MSC No . 1 Experiment .
What happened as we went through here--we got
a little behind because it took a little longer
to do some of these things , especially this
Horizon Scanner Track Check.
It was
taktng so long that
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