John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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I did four for the whole time.
Is that right?
My total reentries wer e four.
I remember I
got three that day before the launch.
I have
one thing, though, Jim, that I think that I
would do differently.
Okay, what's that?
Now that I know what kind of checklist I need
and what kind of procedures books and data
books that I need, I'd have those things ready
a month ahead of time.
I 'd use them and get so
familiar with them and iron any little bugs
out .
We still had some bugs in our books .
That's right .
It was a little hard to use. It was a little
hard to locate things in there.
And if I did
anything differently, I'd put my emphasis real
early on getting my checklist and data books
up even though I know fully well that they'll
change in some little respects r ight up to the
flight, but I ' d get them out so I'd have them.
We didn't have anything up to a week or eight
days before t he flight.