Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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White
McDivitt
White
says that there was a misunderstanding between
us.
They sent up to do the MSC-10, and then
they said not to do the MSC-10.
Do it later.
We didn ' t get the message.
I didn't hear that.
Yes .
I thought all the flight planning was
good except in this one instance that we ' re
talking about. We were directed to do MSC-10
in one pass, and then before it was done, we
were directed to start another check.
We got
this information pretty late before we started
the experiment and hence didn't get it. We
didn ' t check over the times ourselves and I
gues s we should have.
So that when we got
around to doing it, we found ourselves running
into the situation where we were supposed to be
doing two experiments at the same time.
Fortun­
ately, I think we wer e able to accomplish all
the objectives of both experiments, but there
was no need to hurry when we were up there for
f our days.
Jim, I've got another one too.
I've thought
a lot about it. I thought about this one before