Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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craft zero-g, that you get up there and work the
procedures out thoroughly between not only the
guy getting in and out but between the two guys
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that are sitting in the seats .
This is the way
we flew it .
We didn't go up there and fly just
one go.y jumping in and out the batch.
We went
up there and flew wi t h the gu:y in both seats,
whether the man in the left seat actually worked
all the time or not. There were t imes when he
had to help, and in our flight it paid off,
because there was a time when Jim had to help,
and he knew exactly what the problems were and
was able to give the help necessary.
McDivitt
Another thing that might have helped here was
that I ' ve been in and out of t hat right-hand
hatch almost as many times as F,d had.
White
So we knew just what the pro.blems were.
McDivitt
So we knew exactly what the problems were.
14,14· Flight Plan Training
McDivitt
Next topic is Flight Plan Training.
I think we
had such a great number of changes in our flight
plan that it ' s really not fair to discuss this
in any great detail .
The approach that we did
take, as I mentioned earlier, was t hat we would
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