Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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8.8 Crew Station
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
Controls and displays-
. -okay, I' 11 talk about
that. The s,equential Telelights all operated
properly,--came on in the proper colors,
and
punched off and everythi.ng. The event timer
operated properly. The IVI operated properly.
The flight director indicator operated properly.
I would like to discuss the GLV fuel and oxidizer
pressure gages here for a minute .
We got about
a $25 million vehicle,! think,that depends almost
entirely on a launch. We've got an onboard
manual ietection system ,or something like that .
Malfunction detection system.
Malfunction detection system.
An integral part
of the malfunction detection system, are the fuel
and oxidizer pressure gages for both the first and
second stages . This is one of the abort criteria
I
On the scal e of these gages down below the glass
is a beautiful, beantiful set of lines and numbers
and hash marks ,tha.t are wrong. They updated the GLV
information and found out that these things were
in error by quite a bit. No~ to take and fix
these gages would have taken a couple thousand
bucks.
I don't know exactly how much or how