Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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We were discussing the EVA and I was si:1.ying that
I spent approximately 70 percent of my time , it
seemed, trying to get out of the area back a:1ove
the spacecraft in the adapter area .
Yes , you intended to go toward the position that
was directly over the cockpit .
You always arced
passed it beca. 1,•11~ y ::n
W1'lce coming from the front .
This was exa~ tly rig'•rl. because that ' s exacUy
wher e my tether was connected .
Chris had been
very emphatic that he wanted me to stay out of
this area, and I had agreed to stay out of there .
I tell you , I was doing my level best to keep
out but the tether dynamics just put me back
there all the time .
Let me inter ject something here.
When we were
talking about the control modes and how we were
going to control the spacecraft , we decided on
the Pulse Mode rather than the Horizon Scan
Mode , or anything like th..,t .
The Horizon Scan
Mode
would
leave me free to use both hands to
take pictures of you and that way I wouldn ' t
have had to control the spacecraft .
But since it
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