Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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that they updated our t ime reference system and
had it inaccurately updated by a second .
Yes, I think there is a big flap about that .
I 'd like to find out about that , too .
The r eal
time-transmitter, delayed- time transmitter, stand­
by transmitter-- they seemed like they all worked
pretty well .
We had no use for the standby
transmitt er and we used the real - time and delayed­
time transmitter throughout t he flight .
You don ' t
have any comments on this, do you?
I 've got one comment .
When we came over Guaymas
after our computer went out , and we 'd already
fouled the thing up , I know , they said they wanted
us to come right- side-up for a critical tape dump.
So I did , and I got a message from the ground say­
i ng, "Put your Tape Playback to CONTINUOUS ." So
I put the Tape Playback Switch to CONTINUOUS.
Pretty soon they called up and said, "Do you have
your TM switch to REAL-TI ME and DELAYED-TIME?"
I said, "No, I don't have.
You 're going to have
to put it down there." They didn ' t bother telling
me that t hey didn ' t have any command capability
whatsoever.
I went ahead and put the Tape Play­
back to CONTINUOUS, which means that you're dumping