John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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It wouldn't be something you ' d use very often.
I'll tell you what it all is,though.
When you
want it, you want something that you can see .
You just can' t see with those things at all .
I don ' t particularly understand what the interior
and exterior lights mean.
Do you?
I think the exterior lighting is probably the
lighting that could probably be used for docking.
We didn't have any exterior lights.
I thought the intensity control of the lights was
an absolute necessity and I think it was satis­
factory.
I think the fingertip lights are quite
useful , and were commented on already. They should
have the Lexan covers, and we've also commented
that they should be located between the finger­
tip and the first joint. The onboard data--now
here we come to a very useful piece of equipment.
Ha , ha!
I believe I made a considerate effort
three times to update that thing, and I never
got up with it any one of those times .
We had three positions on our flight plan strip.
We had launch,the first five minutes-- ·t'he next
time I tried to get it was 23 hours. The next