Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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readability. It didn ' t have any chronometer func­
tion to it at all . It had strictly a second,
minute , and hour hand on it. It told you GMI'
and it didn't tell you anything else. It told
you GMI' in a way you could read it .
You could
read out the minutes, you could read out the hours,
and you could read out the seconds.
I really
didn't have any trouble with it at all. It had
a nice thin second hand which I find to ~e much
more useful than those great big blunt t hings
with huge arrows on the end of them. I hate to
lose the chronometer feature on that right-hand
side, but I do think that the readability of
this thing,as far as the GMI' is concerned, is so
much superior to that other clock that it isn' t
even comparable.
I'm not sure that the chronometer function on
that side is really too important .
• Don' t you?
No, I would be perfectly happy to go ahead and
take that ,out and put a good clock on there in
Greenwi ch Mean Time.
Now I 've got some further
comments on-­