John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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5. 5 TR- 5 Events
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Well , not knowing exactly what I was doi ng with
the hand controller, you--I was making small
corrections.
That ' s the first time I'd heard that kind of a
sound.
We were getting it when we wer e chasing that
thing around, too--when we were chasing the
booster around.
You were thrusting again.
I thought this was
the other one.
Yes, that ' s right.
So we got through the TR-13
and TR-12 Checklist s.
~e TR-13 and the TR- 12 Checklists really should
be grouped together--the preparat ion and the
OAMS retrofire.
Once more we started doing our checklist a little
early.
Since we had the t i me there was no since
in wasting it and then rushing at the end.
So
we went through what we could in advance of
T -5.
The things we couldn't do or that didn't
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need to be done in advance we waited for until
exactly TR-5.
I guess this is where Ed got the