Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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McDivitt
White
a little marginal in some cases .
I had no diffi­
culty in reading the desi gnations on the switch­
breaker panels. I think they were lighted ade­
quately also. I'm not going to say they're
lighted well, because I don ' t think the lighting
is real good in the spacecraft. The water
management panel isn' t lighted properly .
I ' m
not sure we reall y have to have it l i ghted too
well .
The utility lights, I think,as they are
now.,are very close to being useless. It's like
taking a match and trying to use it to find your
way around. It doesn ' t provide enough light .
From time to time I would have liked to have had
a light which had a little stronger output of
light available,~ so that I coul d--I several times
wanted to look behind my seat for things at night
and I ' d like to look down into the area in the
water management panel light.
Yes , I think probably the wattage on those bulbs
should go up an order of magnitude to make them
effective.
You use it so seldom that it wouldn ' t be a big
power use.
You' d only use it when you needed it ,