Young: PAO requirements - no problem.
Mattingly: Actually, I thought that vent pretty well. I really would recommend that that interview day here in Houston to be continued as two days. I thought that was a lot easier work load than trying to cram it all in one.
Young: Yes, I thought the PAO thing was real good and well handled.
Mattingly: I guess one other thing on that recovery thing is that I thought that extra day on the ship, before we came home, was a good deal. If I would have been given a choice preflight, I would have chosen to come home. But I thought having a day to just relax and unwind with no real requirements, get your physical done, and spend your full time on that and just get it over with, sit down and make up the list we made up. I really thought that was a good plan.
Slayton: Would you have wanted a tape recorder and a debriefing guide and jumped right into that. We talked about that once and didnÂ’t do it.
Mattingly: I really think that making the list the way we did was probably the right thing to do. And I just had the feeling that I had been working for so long everyday, every minute of the day, just to sit and do absolutely nothing was the neatest thing in the world.
Young: Yes.
Mattingly: I really like that.
Duke: We had a tape recorder, Deke. A little portable one, but we decided to write on a paper. It took us a couple hours to get it done.
Young: Well, we spent about 3 hours in the afternoon on the ship, and we spent about an hour coming back on the airplane. May be 1½ or 2 hours coming back on the airplane. Got ‘em all jotted down. We noted a lot of items that we just happened to think of. IÂ’m sure glad we had this list.