Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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computer off. I turned the switches off and
nothing happened.
The comp l i ght stayed on
and I don ' t even think the ·malfunction light came
on, did it? No, it didn't. So I said, "Well, that's
interesting that the darn thing doesn't go off. "
So we flicked the IGS power of~ and back on
quickl y and told them on the grotmd that it
didn't look l ike I could get the computer to go
off and stay off.
I think you told them you thought you had a
failure in the switch.
Yes, I told them it looded to me like I probably
had a failure in the ON-OFF Switch or the ON-OFF
switchiqsfunction. And they said okay.
So I
said, "What do you want me to do here?"
I knew
we could always t urn it off by t urning the IGS off,
but I wasn ' t too keen on that , So they said, "Stand
by.
We' re going to have the experts check it. "
So we flew on out of communication with them.
I think they talked to me over Bermuda too, but
nothing of much importance. They said to stand
by they were still checking it. Then we got ove.c
Tananarive and I got this message to turn the
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