Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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McDivitt
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that ' s keeping your hack-¼t's easy to mistake for
your minute hand.
The way the face is marked it ' s
difficult to read the minutes out .
The hours
interfere with each other. The whole readability
of the clock is unsatisfactory and the readability
of the hands is unsatisfactory.
SQ I think the
clock is out in all counts as far as I ' m concerned.
I kept watching Jim's clock over there and I think
I could get a better Greenwich Mean Time off of
his clock than I could on mine on my side of the
instrument panel.
Hey, let me comment on mine.
I thought the reada­
bility of t hat Accutron 24-hour clock was excellent.
The accuracy of it was lousy. It lost four or
or f ive seconds every day or more.
I reset it
about every 24 hours.
My Omega wrist watch that
I had set on GMT never lost a second, except I
forgot to wind it one day, and it ran down. It
stopped.
Ha, ha!
I was guilty of the same thing.
But the Accutron clock on my side of the instru­
ment panel, that they put on as sort of an
afterthought, was indeed a fine clock as far as