Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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White
McDivitt
I really hate to see us go right on down until
the last minute before •·we get this information
prepared.
I think it' s too bad, but I think on
our flight a l ot of this just couldn' t be helped
because of the drastic changes in the flight plan
in the last two and a half months.
I don't feel we 've got a big beef coming to any­
body.
I lmow a lot of people were working pretty
ha.rd.
That ' s right.
There were a few things on our
checklist that could have been done earlier, but
I think the total miss ion plan ,as such,was modi fied
at a late date to change the objectives by a great
amount.
We in the crew agreed with the change. It
almost doubled the amount of work that we had to
do in those last couple of months, but I think
that by accepting it and trying to make the thing
work, we were abl e to overcome the pr oblem, and it
-wa~
indeed
a major problem.
A situation that I
hoped wouldn ' t occur and did occur on our flight
concerned the checklist, the data books , the pro­
cedure books, the map for the orbit navigation and
our charts and graphs.
We didn't receive the check­
list and the pr ocedure and data books for our flight
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