John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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us on it.
We could switch over t o it quite
quickly.
This wasn't on the checklist , but
we put my switch on RECORD and recorded the
whole sequence of events.
That' s right.
I think that was sort of a
needless position.
You could l isten on HF
without having the transmitter on.
That was the only discrepancy t hat I fow1d in
our checklist.
Everything else we went through.
One other thing.
They had, "Insert a new
voice tape , " and we both felt we wanted the
full reentry on one tape.
If we put a new
voice tape at this time we wouldn' t have
gotten it.
So , I inserted a new voice tape at
the Minus 36 Checklist and I think this is a
good time to do it on future flights.
Yes, the TR-36 Checklist was to be done over
Carnarvon.
We decided that we would check the
maneuver thrusters prior to Carnarvon since
we had a lot of time.
There was no sense in
waiting until the checklist time ca.me around.
Since we had a lot of time , which was the
thing I was striving for , I went ahead and
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