John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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go to two suit fans.
Right. When it got so uncomfortable that I
couldn't sleep, we would go over.
We really did­
n't do that too much .
No , we didn't .
We made a real effort to keep the
electrical load down.
I think that it sort of
showed up there towards the end of the mission
when we really had enough spare power to run the
IGS through the last day--uselessly of course ,
but at least we ran it.
In the launch we had the computer in ASCENT .
F.d
was reading out the errors during launch.
I read
ou~ the rates which didn ' t require an;y information
from the computer.
I was readi~out the lack of errors most of the
time.
Lack of errors, right.
Why don't you discuss the
error status.
I think we discussed it earlier and I'll just go
briefly through it. We didn't have any error s
that I feel would be worth repeating during Stage I.
At guidance initiate we got a ful}-scale-down indi­
cation. This indication I had been told