Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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long, but it would have taken a few dollars. In­
stead we decided it would be simpler and cheaper
and a lot quicker to go ahead and paste some
paper decals over the top of the glass .
The
parallax with these things is horrendous .
The
decal s were pasted on over t he top of the glass
in such a manner that they completely obscure
the inside-the- glass readings.They also obscure the
center needles which are not only the clue to
what the taz1k pressures are but a clue to whether
you have any APS power,which is also critical .
When you cut these things back so that you can
see the inside needles,
you see the inside gage
too .
I think this nickel-dime fix to ·our multi...·!.
million doll ar vehicle is ridiculous.
I think
that we ought to get those inside gages painted
the way that they ' re supposed to be painted.
I
think we ought to end this Mickey Mouse gage
routine right now and get going on GT-5 ' s fuel
and oxidizer gages for both stages . It's ridicu­
lous the way they are right now.
The a.l timeter
worked as advertised.
I mentioned that it went
down and back up again at around 100,000 feet .