Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
White
McDivitt
Let me step back a little bit to this
computer problem.
The computer stuck c.wer
the States at around 75 1/2 hours or so.
The
computer was stuck on. If you've got to have
something stick, you're better off to have it
stick on, I guess, than off.
Especially if
you ever want it to work again.
As we went
out of earshot of the ground UHF radio range in
the States, I asked them if that they had any
instructions.
They said, "Stand by. " I sort
of felt that the thing that we ought to do was
just leave it on for a while.
We got a call
from Tananarive and they said to place the
computer switch to the ON position and a. a .
Power Switch to the ACME.
I said that ' s
certainly a peculiar place to put the switch
and they said these are the instructtons from
Houston.
I think we had a good computer at that time.
I know darn well we had a good computer at
that time .
I think this is like getting your
landing gear stuck up and you fool around with
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