John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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We got every checklist that was required to make
the spacecraft run on these two sets of cards,
which together were about 3/4 of an i nch thick.
I feel that we had a real workabl e solution to
the problem.
These things were the same size as
those carried on GT- 3.
They were much more ex­
panded than what GT- 3 •had.
We had the whole
how-to-operate the spacecraft routine on these
cards.
The preparation and availability of them-- is
this from a training standpoint .
That i s later
in the brief.
Well , anyway, we actually received our cards at
about 8:00 the night before the launch.
That ' s the thing that I was hollering about the
loudest not to have happen and it happened.
understand why it happened, but-­
We had so many changes in the flight plan and
nobody was working on turning this stuff out .
Our time was so filled with over-all t raining
and the change in flight plan that we just didn ' t
have time to go--, We did not have time to go
through the checklist over and over.
When we did
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