Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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that from our past experience and our
knowledge of the suit that even if we did
spring a leak in the blood pressure cuff the
size hole that we had in the suit would not be
catastrophic , and we decided to go ahead with
the EVA.
It was within the·capability of the syst em we
were using.
At Carnarvon we not onl y got the go- ahead to
start the depressurazation, we also got the go-
ahead to open up the hatch , the go- ahead that
we weren ' t supposed to get until Hawaii.
So ,
we went ahead and did that .
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Yes.
I ' m kind of curious of the whole time.
We
were out nearly an orbit , I think.
We didn ' t
get it closed back again till we got back around
to Carnarvon.
We were in a whole orbit depressurized.
Yes, I don ' t think people quite realize that .
We ' ll remind them.
As we got to the hatch
opening thi ng, we had our first difficulties
with the hatch.
The gain gear, I guess you want
to call it--actually I call it the ratchet­
didn' t want to engage into the UNLOCK position.