John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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5. 2 TR- 22 Events
McDivitt
5.3 Tlt-13 Events
McDivitt
and they were operating properly.
At TR-22 I was alining the platform.
I
started alining the platform over the States,
and I put it in Orbit Rate for a while.
Final ly
we got over to the dark side and there wasn ' t
anything else to do , so I alined it some more .
I alined that platform for an hour and a
half.
We had the best alined platform at
retrofire in the world .
We were in pretty good
shape by the t ime we got to the T - 22 checklist,
R
which is really nothing at all. It 's just
another platform alinement.
We checked our
ground updates, and again Carnarvon told us
that we had a good load in the TRS.
At TR-13 minutes we started the computer.
We
started our TR- 13 minute checklist at about
TR-1 4 to make sure we didn ' t run into any
problems.
We got into Orbit Rate, and I got
all the things out just like the T - 12 checklist
R
says.
We had an OAMS burn of 2 minutes and 40
seconds.
They called it up and I