Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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5, 6 TR- 1 Events
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Yes.
At TR-1 there wasn't really much that we
could do in advance, but whatever we could do ,
we did .
There weren
I t many steps.
We just waited for minus 1 minute.
All you have to do is really just prepare your­
self mentally, but at T - 1 I told Ed , "We ' re
R
at a minute. " , and I guess F,d already knew we
were at a minute.
Yes.
F,d did it just exactly as we'd briefed it many
times.
You punched the SEP OAMS.
We heard the
bang.
He followed wit h a SEP ELECTRIC, rather
quickly afterward as we had planned.
We heard
the bang.
Then we waited a short t ime as we
had planned, and fired the SEP ADAPrER.
Then
there was a great big bang.
The tendancy is
to punch those buttons 1, 2, 3.
We decided
that we didn ' t want to go 1,2, 3.
We wanted
t o go 1, 2, (pause) 3.
That was exactly what
we did , and there wasn
I t any doubt whether
the equipment adapter separated.
I had no incl ination to look around.
I knew it
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