Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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McDivitt
White
We ' ve already lost some very val uable data from
this flight.
We could have taped t he entire
EVA and brought those communications back down.
As it was, we couldn' t tape them because we had
to put the thing in UHF so that we coul d transmit
to the ground.
We lost all of t he
blessed
stuff going to the ground anyway.
There are certain systems in here that I think
are very poorly designed.
I think t his is about
the poorest of them all . It ' s l ocated in such a
position that you can not see the opeation light
when it is on.
The light is in an area where
you normally would put things .
Things get put
on top of it so that if you look down there, you
can't see the light .
The light is such a small
insignificant thing when it comes on. Unless you
consciously bend your head down and l ook down
below your right elbow, you can not see whet her
the light is on or not. The switch is set so t hat
you have to go in either RECORD , Ul!F , HF, or
INTERCOM and you can not be in RECORD while you're
on UHF or INTERCOM. This is a very unsatisfact ory
method of having a tape recorder.
The tape r ecorder