Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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We were able to turn the automatic part of it
off quite early in the flight, particularly
since this was the problem we were having.
We were getting-­
That was something I wondered about.
You
know, the t hing is marked, and we were always
instructed that when the thing got down below
38 percent we didn ' t need the heaters any
more.
We shut the heaters off at 42 percent .
Right .
0bviously,the guy that told us to shut the
heaters off at 40 percent
knew what he was
talking about because we never needed them
again.
I think, again, I am very suspicious of McDonnell
on the fix on that gage, and on setting that
pressure on 970, and I'm going to get to the
bottom of it .
Yes , but I think, though,that the pressure
would have still built up even if we had the
relief set at 1050 or so. It would have still
built up.
It might have built up and stabili zed,
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