Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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pletely intact. There was nothing wrong.
Okay.
Let ' s try to follow this insertion activi­
ties list here .
I jettisoned the fairings , as I
said, as soon as I started turning around.
Then
Ed went through the checklist for us.
After I
fired the fairings I turned off the BIA Switch and
the retro rockets when he called.
I was probably
doing this before Ed called, wasn ' t I?
We did things just like we had been doing them on
the simulator.
We don't just take a checklist
and run down it item for item because there ' re
things you have to be doing , and it just doesn ' t
go in a sequence like that .
I realized this was
the way it was going to go, and I actually took a
pencil and checked items off. If you did an item
I checked it off, and if you didn't I left it un­
checked and we got it later. You just can' t ex­
pect to run down the checklist item for item because
you ' re not ready to unstow your life vest or to
get up out of your seat belt. You don't do that
for some time.
I think the logic on the check­
list we have here is a very good sequence--.
We reviewed that checklist 50 times. That's
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