Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
White
outside there. There just ,rasn' t anything for me
to hold onto.
One thing though that I ' ll say
very emphatically- - there wasn't any tendency
to recontact the spacecraft in anything but very
gentle contacts .
I made some q·,.ite interesting
conta~ts. I made one that I recall on the
bottomside of the right door in which I had kind
of rolled around. I actually c8ntacted the bottom
of the spacecraft with my back and the back of my
head .
I wa.1 faced away fror., the r..ipacecraft and I
just drifted right up against it and just very
lightly contacted it. I rebounded off.
As long
as the pushoffs are slow there just isn' t any
tendency to get in an uncontrol lable attitude .
It seemed Fd did hit it pretty hard at one time.
I think that was after he pushed off violently;
he went out and it seemed he came back and bashed
it pretty hard.
I remember a pretty solid thump.
It seemed it was over the right hand hatch or just
right behind--.
I know a couple of times I kicked off with my
feet , and I think I k~ow the time you are talking
about.
I came in with my foot . It wasn' t so much
the contact with myself--.
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