Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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certainly not the time to be deciding what the
heck the position these switches were going to be
in.
We were always briefed that this thing would
be in OFF.
We were going through the switch
positions and they'd ask me to check in the count
at. about T-45 minutes or so.
And I couldn' t see that one.
You couldn' t see that one and you asked me to look
down at it .
I saw the thing was in EVAPORATOR,
so I question the STC.
He checked around and they
had a big flap about what position it was supposed
to be in. Pretty soon we got a call back and he
said if I could get unstrapped and reach the thing,
I ought to turn it over to OVERBOARD. • We thought
it should have been in OFF.
They had it in EVAPOR­
ATOR so we finally decided we ought to go to OVER­
BOARD to keep the thing venting. I was already
strapped in the spacecraft .
I undid my shoulder
harness and reached around in the spacecraft and
flipped a little valve over to OVERBOARD where
it should be and then got strapped.
You sure they didn ' t have you put it OFF?
No, we went to OVERBOARD .