Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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I know it .
It had smooth corners and the only thing I could
have grabbed was the a 1ten1a, a:id I didn ' t want
to grasp that .
we tho·.1ght one ti:..e of holding
oa out there and th:usting, but-- .
There isn' t anything to hold onto.
I think you
pt'obc>.bly co'.lld have gotten a hold on the antenn'3.
and held onto it witho~t hQrting it .
I examined
it pretty closely before the 1-3.'mch, and i t look­
ed pce~ty sturdy .
I thought this was somet hing we needed and I
didn't want to fool with it .
As it turned out we really needed that antenna
be~ause that was the antenna thu.t we used the
whJle flight- -that stub antenna in the nose .
Yes .
When we opened up the spa~ecraft the hatch came
open with a bang.
The air that wa had inside
was obviously of greater pressure tha':1 that o:1t­
sitle , and we had a great outflow of t hings inclu­
ding a piece of foam that we had used to pack our
tnA.neuvering gun in it ' s box. It was the first
thing t hat we put in o=bit .
But then throughout
the time thit Ed was out, he wanted the doJr wide
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