Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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probably the fiftieth checklist we ' ve got there,
and I don ' t think i t could have been arranged any
better for the two of us .
I knew Jim wasn't going to undo his seat belt har­
ness and I knew I was going to have to because I
had to do certain things that he didn ' t have to .
The point that I ' m making is that the checklist
doesn ' t have to be accomplished item for item,
completely done in numerical sequence.
Okay.
I thi nk we ' ll revert back to the exact
subject of 3,3 now.
Safetying the switches .
I
saftied the swi t ches--the BIA Squib Switch and
the four Retro Rocket Squibs Switches. I tested
the sequential l i ghts, but at a later time because
I was involved in turning the spacecraft around.
But X did test them.
As far as stowage, I stowed
my left arm restraint and my D- ring, but I did
not put my saf ety pin in.
I went through and put my arm rest down , put my
safety pin in.
That was one of the first things
I did.
I might comment that I never did put my safety pin
in.
I never put the safety pin in the D- ring.
I
felt the D- ring cover was adequate, and it was .
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