Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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plan at about 96:40 with the retrofire at
about 97:45.
I think we did the Re,tro Check­
list right after we completed our pass across
the States.
We did it right at about 1+30.
Then I did it at one hour.
At TA-1 hour we
went through the checklist again, and got· all
those things that we skipped.
Some of them we
didn't want to do as early as an hour and a
half.
We went through it again in an hour,
and we did the Preretro Checklist step by
step.
I think at that time we had everything
stowed away.
We took a couple last drinks of
water, and put the water gun away, and then
proceeded on down.
White
I had one comment on that checklist. I still
think our HF procedures are not too well de­
fined--when we do and when we don' t put the !::IF
out. Not out, but when we put No . 2 on HF.
It popped up in the checklist again and we
questioned this prior to the flight.
Why put
No . 2 audio on HF during this time? I do not
feel we want to be on HF.
We had the HF on.
We could hear them calling us , if they did call