Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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McDivitt
White
surprise, a.nd there wer e a few surpr ises in ours .
I wouldn ' t say there was much we didn ' t know about,
because we had gone over it pretty thoroughly. But
all our experimental procedures a ~d our books--we ' re
partially to blame in some reepects also, because
we were running the show and knew exactly what
we wanted.
But I concur very heartily with Jim ' s
recommendation t hat we get these t·ni.ngs ma.di~ up
at least t wo weeks ahead of time so th~t we can
use them in the simulator , and that we ~1se the
little hand-held checklist exclusively in the
simulator that we are going t o fiy with if yo11 could
get them n~iled fown th~t well ahead of time.
That ' s
what I would have liked ~o h~ve done .
That ' s what
we didn ' t do, tbo1igh.
Yes , I don ' t really see any excuse for dragging it
out to the last day. If t hese things would hfl.'l'~
been eight hours later than they were, they wouldn't
evBn h.~ve made the flight.
I think ,'l.'1,1ther thing, too , is that right now we've
got a good set of books and checklist.
I recommend
heartily, unless the cr ew that comes beb-ind ·1s h .1.s
som8 very strong diverse opinions, that they use
som~thing similar so that they can get somebody
started making t hem early enough to be useful.
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