Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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whichever direction that is .
Back to getti'lg bade
the 3pacecraft- -I hc:l,d the
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one thermal glove o~ the on~:aand , my left hand.
I always wanted my right hand to be free to op­
erate that g,m a--id the camera.
The way the cam­
era was mow1ted on there, I had to use both h9.nds -­
one hand to actually stabilize it with the glll1
and the other ha.;1d to cea.ch over. Again, I think
dynamics pl~yed a little bit of a role there.
Everytime I brought my hand in from a position
ou~ on my left, it tended to tur.n me a. little
bit, which is exactly what we found happened on
the air-bearing tables. I think that the camera
should have been velcroed to my body somewhere
and used independently of the gun.
Yes .
I g 1)t that same impression.
I got the
impression that what you reall y should have d•:me
was--.
Dropped the gun.
Unhooked the camera out there floating around
and j.1st throW!'l the g,m away.
I don't think you
ever should have tried to bring it back.
Well , what I should have done was fold the g~n
and handed it to y◊u,
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