Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
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McDivitt
Your fingers sort of take the place of the
spring and drive this l ittle pawl home.
This is the first time we actually tried this
in a suit.
It requires you to press up with
your left arm to get at the gain pawl, and at
the same time hold yourself down.
And I think
l ater on this was a source of some of our
problems which I brought out now so that we can
find out later on.
I f el t it start to engage ,
and start to ratchet the lugs out.
Jim also
verified that they were coming open.
I backed
them off , and I remember Jim saying "Ooop ! Not
so fast !", and at that time it popped .
The
hatch actually popped open, jumped open about
3 or 4 inches.
I was expecting the hatch t o come open with a
bang.
Although we had the cabin to vent and it
had bled on down to where there was nothing
indicated on the Cabin Pressure Gage , we still
really had the repress valve on.
He was
bleeding right into the spacecraft .
We never
got down to a vacuum and even though we had a
cabin pressure of only a tenth of a psi , we
spread it over t he entire area of that hatch,
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