Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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White
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
I remember they argued.
I thought they had it on
EVAPORATOR first.
It went from EVAPORATOR-­
That seems like the least likely of any position
to put it in.
That ' s right.
We went from EVAPORATOR over to
OVERBOARD.
So I think a comment that I ' d like to
make right now about the whole water management
panel is that it's a simple thing. It's got
three !mobs and each !mob ' s only got three or
four positions .
We had the ECS engineers at
McDonnell give us a briefing on this simple water
management panel.
We had about seven guys there
with seven different versions of how it was de­
signed, how it operated, and what the different
positions we were supposed to be in. They got us
so screwed up that when we left ther e we didn ' t
have any idea in the world whatit was supposed to
do.
I think those designers didn ' t either.
They didn ' t either and it was pretty obvious that
they didn ' t .
We went through a lot of discussion
with that water management panel. Finally I think