Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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of the spacecraft.
I knew right away as soon as
I got u~I felt even before - - that the technique
of holding on to the bar in the spacecraft and
sticking a finger in the RCS thruster wasn ' t
going to wor k.
I mentioned that to Jim before -­
that I didn ' t think I would be able to do it .
McDivitt
I think that you and I both knew how you were
going to do, and ever-sbody else was planning for
us how we were going to do it , but without any
real experience in it. People. who didn I t know
a lot about it were planning this sequence a~d
it wasn ' t the way it should have been.
White
I couldn ' t have done that .
I didn ' t have three
hands.
I couldn' t hold the gun and put a
finger in the RCS nozzle, and hold the handle
at the same t.ime.
I thought it would be more
d~sira.bl:'; anyhow to actually depart the space­
craft with no ·.relocity, other than that imparted
by the gun.
This is exactly what I did.
I
thought t hat I was free of the spacecraft , and
I fired the gun.
I real'i.zed that my legs were
still dragging a little bit on the side of the
seat, so I pulled myself out until I could
see that my feet 1vere actual l'•' on!; 0f the