John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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was gone.
That' s when Ed hollered, "'l'here go the pump
packages ! I see two pump packages out there.
Just exactly what John Young said!"
They separate right off to the left side.
Jim
couldn ' t see them because of the position of
his head.
I could see them.
That 's right.
I never saw them at all .
I could clearly see the t wo pumps together on
the mounting and mounted together.
They were
right together.
And I'll back John up to hilt
on that one.
I saw them too .
We got the ad~pter separated with all the at­
tendent flying pump packages.
Quite a flourish, isn' t it?
Right.
I t sure is . It was a big bang.
There ' s
no doubt about it.
At TR- 30 , the TR- 30
Sequence Light s ceme on, and at that t:Lme Ed
said, "The s aquence 1ights came on about a
second or a second and a half in advance. "
So , I armed retro squibs , and we discussed
whether or not to punch off the Auto- retr o
Button or not. If the TRS was fast, I didn't