John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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White
McDivitt
White
with EVA.
And that ' s when I went.
I bet we went out at
Hawaii.
I think we went out at Hawaii.
I delayed from the time you gave just a minute,
long enough to actuate the camera on the
outside.
This was kind of interesting.
When I
actuated that camera, I had D\Y gun tied to my
arm with the tether. It floated freely to my
right .
I turned back around and turned the switch
ON on the camera, and listened and made sure
the thing was running.
I knew it was running,
and put it down.
I think you'll see t his on
the film.
I wanted to be sure it was running
when I mounted it back there.
I actually took
it off and turned it on, and I remember it
jiggling up and down when I was trying to stick
it on there.
It ought to be a funny looking
film.
And it might even show the gun floating
beside me as I was mounting it.
That ' s when
you said, "Slow down.
You' re getting awfully
hot . "
I was working pretty hard to get that
on.
I mounted the camera again and this is
where I tried to actually maneuver right out