Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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White
McDivitt
first clue that the TRS was ahead of the ground
time.
This is an area where I particularly watch the
time.
This is an a.:-ea where I 'm making a time
check to start the elapsed timer going in order
to get our time after retrofire.
I was watch­
ing it pretty close.
The indication on my
watch was that the TRS vi.as about a second or so
early.
I felt we had a good Green·..n.ch Mean
Time hack.
We checked it several times and I
thought we had a good one.
With my time refer­
ence it was approximately a second to a little
better early.
At this time I had about half
of the checklist completed before we got to
the time for it.
I verified it several times.
It's not a hurried time at all, from 36 down,
I don't believe.
There ' s no time in there when
you're really rushed unless it-­
Yes. It is not hurried, provided you have
everything else completed and you' re not doing
anything else but preparing for the retrofire-­
you have nothing going wrong during this period.
At TR-5 the sequence lights came on a little
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