John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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GO/ NO GO
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Systems Status
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initiate.
It was beautiful steering.
Nominal, nominal, nominal, except like that
saturation on the error needle, but we have been
briefed on that.
That ' s right.
That ' s something to be expecterui
When did it saturate?
Right at staging. No, right at guidance initiate.
Oh, okay. It saturated right there.
Right there at guidance initiate, which is what
you ' d except.
They said they were GO and I said we were GO .
There wasn't much problem.
Ed and I had been
checking back and forth on the systems .
I knew
they were all right.
The systems were all pretty good.
There was only
one I didn ' t like and that was the stack readings
on the main ammeters.
One was reading about 28
and the other was reading about 14,
But I felt
that this was associated with bringing the batter­
ies on.
I went through and checked everything.
Everything was readi ng properly.
The control bus