John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Well, you really need-
-elapsed
time. If we had elapsed time-­
If we had a good elapsed timer onboard the space­
craft, I would say that there ' s no doubt about it .
Elapsed time.
I think we ought to start working on it right
now .
Elapsed time is the way we should go .
I don ' t
t hink that with the timing systems we 've got
available for the Gemini that we want to go to
elapsed time for the whole mission .
Trying to get our data back from this f l ight is
going to be a horrible mess because of those two
timing systems .
I know it .
I agree. Before we lai.mched, we knew
that we wanted to run it in elapsed time, and
there wasn ' t any doub't about it .
I think maybe if we make the point strong enough
maybe they ' l l get busy on it .
You ' re right. l,,J,e'll get going on it .
Okay, why don ' t you take the checklist cards , Jim?
The checklist cards .
We had two complete sets of
car ds that were broken up into two groups .
We
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