Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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open. It was pretty obvious that the flow was
from the spacecraft to the outside because part­
way through his maneuvers his glove floated out
and floated away from the spacecraft with area­
sonably good relative velocity.
The entire time
he was out , even after we h.'.l.d the hatch open fo~
20 to 25 minutes, we were still getting particles
floating out thxough the hatch. It was the flow.
The streamlines were very obvious. It was from
inside the spacecraft to the outside.
I guess
the spacecraft was out-gassing at a sufficient
rate to cause a reasonably large pressu.re differ­
ential from inside to outside , and it was cer­
tainly relieving itself. I noticed this even as
we were trying to get the hatch ~losed .
There
was still a flow from inside to outside.
Okay.
I think that pretty well covers most of
the things that we actually did while I was
out there.
Now , as for getting back in--.
Yes, let's go all the way back thxough and come
back in .
The time really did go faet!
I had
watches with :ne, but I dii:a ' t look at them.
I was watching the time.
I noticed my watch
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