Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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the flight, and I think about it right now.
And
I thought about it during the flight.
I think it's
time to start a crusade.
I think it's time to
start a crusade on the elapsed time.
Get us a
clock. It's going to cost money, but I think we
ought to get ourselves a good elapsed time clock
inside the spacecraft. Get FOD to start going on
elapsed time. And here's another funny sounding
one, but I don ' t see why we couldn' t do it--why
we couldn't have a flight watch in ten-hour in­
crements.
Let somebody build a ten-hour watch
with a counter on ten hour increments .
And then
we'd have the timing system that we need on the
spacecraft. What do you think of that? I know
you and I have talked about this before but I
think it's time-­
Yes.
We were forced to run our mission using
both elapsed time and Greenwich Mean Time and it's
almost an insurmountable problem.
I think it's really got our data all fouled up
right now, too.
I think we'll unsnarl it all
right, but, boy, if we could've been putting
all our times into those tapes and on our data
books in str~ight elapsed-time increments, and even