Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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to look at until 8:00 o'clock the night before the
flight .
Consequently, we didn't have a l ot of
time to go through them the way we should have.
We
should have had these books and charts in our hands
no later than two weeks before the flight .
Here
again there were some extenuating circumstance, but
I 'm not sure that the circumstances were really that
great.
I still think that we should have gotten
these out earlier. The people down at the Cape
doing these things worked themselves to the bone
night and da1,practically,to get these things done.
I have nothing but ~he highest praise for the people
from FCSD that came down to do this job,
I just
sort of suspect that we should have gotten started
on it earlier and that maybe we should have had a few
more people down there doing it .
Any comment on
this, F.d?
White
No. This is the thing that I think I was harping
about a long time before the flight, because I saw
the same thing happen on GT-3 ,when the checklist
came in at the last minute.
In fact, the last
night before the flight, I remember John walking down
the hall looking at hie flight plan and his check­
list and commenting on this surprise and that