Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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it and it comes down and then just for the
hell of it you pull it up again to see if it's
going to come up.
I don't think we should
have ever turned off the computer. Unfortunate­
ly, I didn' t have all the infonnation at my
fingertips that I needed to really make a de­
cision on it.
When we got to the next station,
which was Hawaii, I asked them how we were
doing on electrical power.
They sai d that we
were 160 amp-hours ahead of the curve.
We had
a 200 amp-hour cushion, so that meant that we
had a 360 amp-hour pad on our flight pl an. In
the meantime, I had checked to see what the
computer- ON, IGS Power Supply-ON took. It
took 5. 6 amp-hours to power this thing.
We
were at 76 hours on a 96-hour mission and we
had about 20 hours to go.
Twenty times 5.6 is
a little over 100.
So, if we had used up these
100 amp-hours , we'd still finish up with a
better electrical pad than we started out with,
or than we expected when we started out.
So,
I sort of feel that we needlessly threw the
computer down the drain.
After we got the