Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

Text

This text came with the file. It may have mistakes. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

McDivitt
White
109
COf\J FIDEf\lTlAL
I guess what you end up with is two clocks that
aren ' t any good. Either one of them aren ' t any
good.
You ' d rather end up with one clock that
was good.
Yes , the way it ' s combined together right now ,
it ' s really not too good.
I hacked your OAMS
burn on my watch.
I work with two clocks on my
left arm and it worked out r eal well for me.
I
had elapsed time on one and I had Greenwich Mean
Time on the other.
I used the elapsed timer as
the one on which I made my hacks .
So I feel we
got adequate backup. If one poops out , you can
use the other one to make your time on.
So, I
think we should have a good clock to keep track
of the time in the spacecraft on the instrument
panel .
Now ,
I'd like to get back on the clocks
again.
I think that elapsed time is the only kind
of time that we ought to have in the spacecraft .
I think that we ought to have a good method of
keeping track of elapsed time.
I think probably a
ten-hour clock that keeps track of each ten-hour
incement that you pasa to a high degree of accu­
racy, is the kind of clock that we need.
I don't