Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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We got the computer on and got it
loaded .
The DCS updates were going in and they
were gett Lng V fJ dfication on the ground.
One time
I remember we didn't g6t the DCS light .
As a
matter of fact, they sent the load up again and
we sti.l.l iid.n ' t get the DCS light. They verified
on the ground that it was going in.
Well, the funny thing 'we.S when the computer wasn ' t
on we got a DCS light.
The DCS lights come on when they get set up for
the TX and send out a :r.ealbtime command,too.
Well, mRybe the TX when they sent up-·
They
kept telling us that they got a good load in it
and I had no light. I really didn ' t quite bel ieve
them.
Neither did I. As a matter-of fact, we had it
verified at the next station.
Okay.
And that ' s where the onboard computer thing ends .
I might go through what happened to the thing.
We were over the .States and h!;',,d the onboard computer
on for getting a new load in it. I got just about
over Florida .
He said, okay, I could turn the