John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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I was right up close to the spacecraft and that's
when I came over.
Do you remember me coming
over and actually looking about a foot from your
window, Jim?
Yes .
Looking right at you.
Yes, I think that was the time the movie camera
wasn't going and I was fooling around with it ,
trying to make sure that it was running.
Oh, that would have been a very interesting
picture.
I'm not sure it was going, Ed ,
~ecause, as you
know, we had so much trouble making the left
hand one run.
We had that t rouble throughout
the remainder of the flight.
You pushed a
switch over and it seemed to run so:netimes, but
sometimes it wouldn't.
I kept worrying about
whether or not it was running so, I would grab
a hold of it to see if I could feel it clicking
over.
I switched the ON-OFF switch on a couple
of times to make sure I could tell the change in
the feel of it. I'm afraid this time is one of
the times that I didn't have the camera going,
because I was trying to make sure that it was
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