John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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I came in .
Yes.
I think what happe:.e::1 ·,ms he was stiffer ,
and he wa.sn' t bending his legs and his arms ai:1y .
You mean with the harder suit I was stiffer?
Harder .
And your. arms were stiffe:::- a nd yo'J.weren't
bending them
around as much . It looked a lot
more rigid.
This mig~ ~ hav,3 been.
Not semi-rigi.:i--Ei w:3.s rigid .
All r ight .
This might have been.
And that looked to me like it might have been tht,
probl3m .
ThL, might have been part of the recontact 0::1 the
side of t;'.,e spacecraft that I noticed .
But
as I came back in, I noti-:::ed that I had to work
a little harder , and I hoped the tape was running·
because I think we had a very good commentary.
We were both talk ing very clearly bal)k a'ld forth
to ea-:::h ot~~er during this time and I w~s telling
Jim that I was go:'..ng''to com-3 in slow because it
waf-1 a little tought;r than t ha.:i tho 1ght .
We ·-'•=re
talking back and forth ab.::mt being slow and tak-·
ing it easy .
I actually helped pu:,h ~ down in there .
I d,,n ' t
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