Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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That was the last th.ing Ed put into orbit .
Right .
I put that L:1 o~bit. Earlier , it was
r eally quite a sensation to see the glove float­
ing off.
I asked Jim a few .nin.ltes before about
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thf~ glova , ".>r Jim had asked me, "ne:v, do you want
this other glove?"
About a minute 1-9.t er, I saw
it gQ floating o'.lt of the hatch .
All I can say, Fil, war,, about a half hou.'..' 13.ter I
was sure t hankful that we had g')tte!1 r id of so:ne­
thing.
We had s·:i much other junk that we didn ' t
want .
I saw t he glove come fioating r)at of the righ>
hand hatch , and it was a perfectly clear picture
of t~ glo·,e as it floated out .
It floated ::mt
over my right shouLler arnl t1ut- -it l:ioked 1ike
i t waG on a defL'li te trajecto:r-y going somewhere .
I don't know where it was going.
It floated very
smartly out of -i:he :Jpa:~ecraft and ,:mt i.n-~o
s pace .
I thi n~-< this ha:l. a lot to do ·11ith that C'lt- gas­
sing.
There was a definite stream--.
Yes .
It was following the s tream:..ine ri~ht :m~
of i:he sp~1i::ecraft .
It went oat perpendicular to thP spacecraft ,
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