Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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know whether he felt it or not in that suit .
No , I couldn't.
I reached over and I steered his leg::i do,m in,
and I sort of got hi.n settled b the seat a
l ittle better than what he was getting himself.
Yes.
Right.
I was kind of free wheeli~g my feet
up there.
Yes . It looked to me like Ed was holding o~ to
the top of the open part of the hatch and j~st
swiveling around that pa-rt. It looked like he
didn ' t have enough mobility and strength in his
arms to actually t wist his body down against the
force of the suit into the seat.
After awh.Lle, I reached my left arm u.nderaeath,
the same techniq~e we had used in the zero-g
training, and actually I had my hands all over the •
ci rc1xi t breakers.
Yes.
Ed was a real hazard to the switches.
Yes, and I pulled myself do·..m in and that ' s when
I really started coming .Ln--when 1 gut hold. of the
underneath stde of that circuit breaker panel
and p~lled myself in. That's when my first real
progress was made toward actually getting d:>wn in.
Because, while I co1.1ld steer Ekl from where I was
--CONFIDE~