Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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llu J[u l!1c.1. .
No ,
,1,; a. matter of f act ,
w<: huvr• i.1. 1· . i Et,h t, plarlCl<:r ove:r in U1e spacecraft center.
You roll
Lhr ee limes dur in1~ flight--You roll (when you come down to) l iftup
from the luPnch 1iases which you ho.ve never looked at and about
20 hourc Jal.er 'Ne rolled a round fo r 20 hour s --I never even got it
Lo 20 (her e )
Just part of re- entry we rolled i t around some more and then gave
up 70 hour s .
(We milked some stuff on it ) .
Storm books are real good.
Excu se
me , l et me see these hooks .
We have a book like thi s .
To do any
r eal Lime f'light planning, you have t o have access to the--every­
Lhirw.--all al once , and you don ' t want to have t o get every some­
Lhinµ; on a r oller when _you ' ve ,<(ot Lo roll t hroup;h i t l ike t his .
If
you want to know what ' s going to happen in 9J hours, you just open
the hook up and turn over t o 9J hours .
Then if you want t o compare
that with say 40 hour s --you want t o have a comparison t here , you
can ' t f o this on a roller f i l m.
Unless you ' ve got some quick access,
u way of get,tine; that our like y01J had your own sor t of a meteor
rrucr ofilm.
Uid you take notes on your book, sir?
Yes, we dj d .
·1 Lli.i.nk one i,hi.n~~ thut we did decide on is that the
l..i.mc-sc:ale:; Lha.t we hu.vc ill our .flight plan here are- - neither one
c>l' t,t1cm a:t'c' exactly ri.1<h t.
The ear·l y par t o r the mission was highly
<'xpu.11dc.•<l ; Llw L~1t.Ler _pn.rt was we.she'd down a. J ittle.
I think we have
::l.x '1011 rs p<·r paf'.C in I.he latt,er s U1ge and we ha.ve an hour per page