Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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around 4 minutes and 6 mi.nutes and 8 minutes .
And t' .en you got involved in floating 1:3,ro'.l.Yld
as we were t rying to get that last pict,\u'e .
The tim,a really flew!
You kept getting behi.nd me all the t ime and I
became distracted from ;he t ime we were on VOX,
co'llpletely blocking out the grou.'ld .
Our VOX must
have been triggered constantly, be::::ause whenever
we were on it they coul::l:o' t tra.'lsmi t to us.
That ' s where the time got away from me .
That ' s right , and it was 15 minutes and 40 sec­
onds when I looked at my clock.
So , I th::>'.lght
that I had better g::> to the ground.
I said to
the ground, "Do you ha-.re any ,rn,ssage for us? 11
because I knew it was time to get back in.
And
th-9y just sai:i, "Yes .
Get back in! "
Right .
I remember hearing Gus say,"Yes, get
him back in ! "
This is what all the fuss was about .
They
might have been transmitting to us to get back
in hut we ware on VOX a.-id couldn' t hear a t hing.
I did a few things after this time that I wasn ' t
d·::>ing to deliberately stay out .
Bc1t I was
deliberately t rying to do one last thing.
I was