Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
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McDivitt
I went through one call, a.nd then I went through a
short count on the HF.
I heard nothing and received
nothing from anybody else.
This was about 5
minutes or so after we had been on the water that
we actually made the HF check.
Maybe it wasn't
even that long.
As soon as I got all the switches
where I wanted them, I went ahead and-
I saw you put the antennas up, and you went ahead
and put in a transmission pretty quick.
Right,
I didn't make another check on the HF.
I hadn't been too impressed with the operation of
the HF up to this time, and things were getting
pretty busy.
Five or 10 minutes later we had the
recovery people on•
I guess we're going to get
to that.
I heard them say we had a helicopter
almost overhead,
They called just after we retrofired, I think, and
before we got to blackout--called and said that
they should have a helicopter over us in 5
minutes.
We didn't get any onboard data.
The
ground information that I got was, as I said, from
Gus.
Then right after we hit, Omnibus said, "I
got them in sight.
I'm 48 miles out on TACAN
radial..: ",something or otl-1.er. So, I figured we