Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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all that tape. If you don ' t have the ~eal- time­
delayed-time transmitters on, you're just dump­
ing it into noth!e!lg.
You're erasing.
So we got
some pretty inadequate communications there. They
should have said,
"We don't have any command
capability. Will you please place your tape
recorder and your TM switches so we can receive
it?" We knew how to work the thing. It ' s just
that the instructions we got conflicted with the
normal procedures. Consequently we dumped all this
tape that really was critical. I'm not sure how
much of it they got on the ground. I'm not even
sure if they ever got any of it on the ground • .
because we got some not only inadequate but really
erroneous instructions.
White
Okay, communications---we covered them in coordin­
ation with the ground a little earlier. I think
that the flight controllers handled our flight in
a very good manner.
I think that when they had
something to say, they said it , and when they knew
that we wanted to talk to them, they'd talk to us.
When they didn't have something to say, it was kept
in a good manner.
I thought it was a very profes­