Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
White
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
White
What did you do? Contact and pushoff?
I contacted and pushed with my foot .
I heard a big thump and I think I call ed you at
this time t o take it easy.
I believe that was on the fro~t end of the R & R
Section on my side where yo'.l couldn't see me .
It was a position that I couldn't see.
One of the pictures that I saw last night in the
movies , I think, was made at t hat time .
I was
coming in fair ly rapidly and I wanted to get back
out, so I kicked off again with my foot fairly
hard.
It was a vary good kick.
I felt th:3,,t
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certainly could have controlled myself without
the gun out there if I had just some type of
very insignificant hand-holds or someth.i.ng
that I could have held on to .
I believe that I
could have gone on back to the adapters with a
minimum of several hand-holds to go back ➔;he re,
going from one to the other.
I was actua,.1:r
looking for some type of himd-holdi: out th0re.
I remember that the only one that I saw was the
stub antenna on the nose of the spacecraft .
could see the ceramic covering ()Ver it, I believe
it was ceramic , or some kind of covering o,ar it .
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