Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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t rying to get that last pi cture .
And this was
one of a couple of times that I kicked off the
spacecraft really har.d, to get out to the cmd ·':l'!:
the tether. And [ wasn 1 t successful in g~tting
t he positi on so t hat I couli get a picture. I
fel t this was the one part of the mission that I
had:1 1 t completed.
Everything else was successful
and I wanted very badly to get that picture from
outside .
I spent a moment or so doing this.
This was also the period of ti~e in which I
called down to Jim a~d said, "I ' m actually walk­
ing o~ top of the spacecra.ft. 11
I took the tether
heU onto it, and ui:ied it as a device to pull me
down to the spacecraft.
I walked from about
where the angle starts to break be+
·"l the nose
section and the ca~in secti':ln.
I walked from there
~robably about two-thirds of the way up the cabin,
avid it was really quite strenuo'.ls,
Could you see
me walking along, Jim?
No , I couldn't see but I could feel the thumping
on the O'.ltside .
That ' s when 1 got to la 1ghing so hard. This was
when Jim \•tas sa,ying to com,, in.
Yes , I think this is when T got a little ster n