Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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go through them it took too long to get the
thing back to us .
Dick Benson came down to the
Cape and did an absolute marvelous job, I think,
in getting these things turned out .
I think he did, too .
I think we all owe him a
real vote of confidence.
That's right.
He did an outstanding job.
I think the biggest confidence builder that you
had, Jim, was when we started getting.these books .
That ' s right. Shoot, I was worried about us get­
ting ready for the flight because I didn ' t think
we would be able to get all this stuff together.
'Finally he showed up and really went through it9
but it doesn ' t change the fact that these check­
list cards and data books didn ' t arrive until
8: 00 the night before the flight .
We had a few
changes that had to be made.
I guess I went to
bed about 9: 30.
Dick Benson and Martin Miller
were still in our conference room making changes
to our books.
So a lot of t hese things we didn ' t
see until we flipped them out in flight .
I think
our data books, as we had them laid out, couldn' t
have been better. Well, I shouldn't say that;