Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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this manner, but it wouldn ' t have been the way
we would have wanted it.
Yes, that ' s right .
I don't think that ' s the
way it should be done .
It was just too bad
that we had a time limit on it , but when we did
get rid of the booster, or the booster no
longer became a part of the flight plan, then the
time limit vanished.
We found out that we
really needed that extra orbit, or probably could
have used another 20 minutes.
Yes.
We went back.
And I remember as we came
over Carnarvon, we had about a 15 minute chat
back and forth- kind of a rest period.
We
were all hooked up at that time, and that ' s the
time we went on the ~epress flow, ready for the
depressurization.
I think they gave us a GO
then for our EVA.
That ' s right .
We depressurized the cabin and
got down to 2 psi to check our blood pressure.
We tried to put our blood pressure plugs in
the blood pressure plug port and found out that
we didn't have any blood pressure plugs on
either- suits.
This was quite a surpri se.
An
unpleasant one, I might add.
Well , we decided