John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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McDivitt
White
switches and lmow where they're supposed to be,
you can make sure they ' re located properly and on
the proper indication, but I can't read anything
down in that area at night. The lighting is very
poor in that area.
One thing that I'd like to comment on here a
little bit is that
~ amber light that I insisted
that they put on the Preheat-Flush
switch over
back of the water management panel.
I felt it
came in real handy.
Two times during the course
of the flight I left the Preheat switch on after
I flushed it for short periods of time to make
sure we didn't have any ice left in the lines .
I did it on every occasion, but two times the
thing that called my attention to the fact that
I still had the thing on, was the fact I could
see that orange light-amber light-shining up be­
tween the food box and the front of the spacecraft .
I could tell that I had another light on in the
back.
And so I think the left panel, center panel, right
panel, pedestal, and console are not lit abundantly,
but are lit what I ' d call adequately and perhaps