Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivltt
White
McDivltt
White
McDivltt
got the handle , but I don'-c k11ow what I said
to you.
You didn't say anything .
I do~ ' t know whether
you said anything to me or not , bu"':. you didn ' t
have to sa~ anything to me .
I saw you move
that ha.."'ldle and I saw how easy it was going and
I saw that the dogs were~ ' t moving.
I thLnk I said somethL'lg.
I don ' t re1nember w:hat
I said .
But I said something anrl you knew
right away what had happened.
You didn't say a word.
I waB watchi.'.l.g the dogs
and that lever a"'ld I krle•,1 what the trouble was .
Right .
So I guess that ' s when I said , "I ' m
going to ha·,re to take the visor off because I
can't see." And then we went back up and Ji m
said, "Well, we're not going to open the hatch
again.
Why don ' t you thro·,1 the visor out ." I
hesitated for a mir'l.ute to throw it out because
I thought that we might have a pt'oblem.
Actually, we had a little more difficulty than
we had explained .
We fooled around for a min­
u~e or two or m~wbe even th:=ee or four with the
handle. It was pretty apparent to us that we
weren ' t going to get the hatch closed with nor­
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