John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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.u1.ything else.
Nothing else was scheduled.
We wer e down through what we felt was all the
fuel we wanted to use , so about all I did was
a couple of tracking tasks.
Going back for a moment, - at 17:19 I did an
Apollo D- 6 on Yuma.
Okay, I think that bri ngs
us t o the preretro portion of the mission.
Right , Ed?
Yes, sir.
I think you 'll find there are ~uite
a few errors and omissions in what we've put
on the tape right now.
I think you have to com­
pare them both--the two tapes together--to get
anything.
That's like air to ground tape, also .·
That ' s right. It has to all be put together .
This is just a piece right here.
White
We really started our preretro preparation
about three hours prior to preretro .
At this
time we started stowing equipment and pre­
paring the spacecraft and ourselves for the
retrofire. I think we worked for probably
30 ±o 45 minutes without making a very bi g
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