Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivltt
Whi.te
McD:i.vitt
White
McDivitt
White
Oh?
Did you. get it in your. thighs o:':.' calves?
Bo-th of thP. muscles in the back of my thighs
balled up in a ball and I thought , "Well, I have
to go back out and l et them straighten up."
So, I straightened my legs out .
We had that problem before in the zero•-g air­
plane.
This is the time Jim said, "Hey while you' re
up, why don't you throw the vlsor out?"
I
hesitated a minute because I thought, "Well,
you son-of-a-buck, you might have problems here.
You might have to be spending an orbit or so
trylng to get in."
No , as a matter of fa~t , I don ' t think th~t is
when you did th.row it out .
I think you threw
it out when you ca.me back dow~ and you started
to close the hatch.
You were having trouble,
It wouldn't close, and you said, "I'm going to
have to take this visor off so that I can see
these things." And I said, "Listen, if we get
this thing closed we're not going to open it
again .
Throw the visor away."
That ' s right. That was when I got the cramps ,
went back up again and then I came back down
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