Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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get it later on anytime I had to pull my helmet
down .
Occasionally when I got in close to the
spacecraft, the bag and strings associated ..,,-; th
the bag were tangling up around the vicinity of
the gun and the camera.
And it seemed like
the umbilical was right in front of the camera
all the time .
So , I think the pictures will
verify that I was flicking my right arm quite
a bit in the l atter part of the flight , trying
to clear things out from in front of it to get
a picture . Whenever I was in a position to get a
picture it seemed like I was facing away from the
spacecraft .
I took a couple of shots in desper­
ation and I think I might have gotten a piece of
the spacecr aft . But I never got the picture that
I was after .
I wanted to get a picture of Jim
sitting in that spacecr aft, through the open
hatch, with the whole spacecraft .
I know that I
didn' t get that .
In fact, as time went on I
realized that I wasn ' t going to get much of a
picture .
I was trying everything I knew to get
out there and get stabilized so that I could turn
around and get a good picture .
I just couldn't
do this . This was at the time when I was looking
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