Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
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and said, "Get in here! "
When I w,3,s •t1':ilking on the •:,op and w,3,3 .l:3.1.,5·!1ing ,
Jim pr:.>bably did·:1 1 t think I th:mght he wa.s
serious .
But i t was a very funny sensation.
Now
as far as delayi:ig, there were ce::::-tain things
that I ha1 to do befo~e I came in.
And there
wasn ' t anything in the world that was going to
hurPy me up in do:l.ng the;n .
We had just agr eed
that we'd do things in a slow manner and this is
the way we ' d do it .
Let me talk about the tine here. It is implied
in the ~apers that Ed didn ' t really wa"lt to come
ba.ck in, and didn ' t .
I think one of the things
is that we didn't hear .
We didn ' t have any
t ransmissions from the ground after he step~ed
outside until I went off VOX at 15:4) .
They
said , "Come back in . ", an:l I told him to come
back in .
I think that he pt•obably del q,yed .~'::>out
a minute or t w? minutes .
I thi nk so , trying to get the pictures .
And at that t imn I got a little i t-ritated a.."ld
hollered at Ed , too .
Th,~n he started back in.
But whe~ I came baJk 1 had things to do .
McDivitt
Yes .
I k-1ow it .
That 's what I ' m t rying to say