Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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White
That ' s right .
Okay, the electrical system-­
8 .6 Electrical System
White
Okay, t he systems monitoring.
I thought it was
satisfactory.
We went through and monitored the
systems every time for the GO/NO GO checks, and
quit e a few times along the line in addition to
this. So I thought the method of monitoring was
satisfactory. I don't believe we really had any
way of monitoring the electrical power remaining.
McDivitt
Yes, that ' s a draw back, and we all know it, I
guess .
White
Right .
That ' s an unsatisfactory conditionmd
I don ' t know what we're going to do about it.
I think it's too much of a job to try to think
that you ' re going to sit in there and calculate
all the things you have on,and try to keep an
onboard plot of what electrical power you have
remaining.
McDivitt
Yes , I think this is a ground function .
I don't
think that we can realistically do it onboard the
spacecraft .
White
I don't believe we got any indication of how our
electrical power was going from the ground,except