Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
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I really didn ' t have the strength to pull him in .
It was ';)0 degreea to the ·,my that he t:'ea.l.ly
wanted to be pulling .
I co'.lld steer.
I did do
a lj .,tle bit of pushing, but n::>t a heck of a lot .
I w:as>1 1 t really contributing rn,wh to the effort
t her.e ex-~ept-- .
You
were guiding me down into t he fcotwells .
Yes . That was aoout it .
B'J.t once I got my hand,, 11p 11:1dernP-ath the irrntcu­
ment panel , I was back pretty well in familiar
groun:is--the work that we ' d done five dnen times
in the zero-g air.pla,He ,and I kJ1ew the tecMi.que
pretty well.
10 0::)0 tim,~s !
White does check pretty ...,ell .
I really did it a lot;.
Maybe the suit wa,3
stiffer, or maybe I was .fatter, b:.it I wasn ' t
going in quite as easy as I had before--getting
into the initial positio:1 to pull myself dow~1
in~o the seat .
So it took ma a 1ittle longe.t:' .
I f you recall , I had to go back o'.lt again one
t ime .
I got back do•,1a and started to wedge my­
self d::>wn anrl I got t wo fat cr-:1inps at the bot­
toms of my thi.gha in both legs , where the
muscles star ted to bal l up a little .
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