Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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was closed fine. It really wasn ' t closed far
enough because you never did get those dogs out
until we- - .
No, the dogs came out, Jim, the first time 1 got
torque o~ it. Those dogs started out, then it
closed.
Did they? Okay.
Yes.
I think we had it down f~r enough.
It looked t :J me like we did, and I couldn't
unde~stand why they weren't coming out .
I knew
that the :oo.tchet wasn't engaged, but I got the
impressiJn that i t was from watching your hand
when you came down one time.
You had the ·ratchet
engaged and the littletit pin that sticks in the
doer that doesn't allow things to come closed
wasn ' t there.
No, the. ratchet wasn't engaged. There was nothing
on the handle at all. It was free, completely
free.
The s:ituation hadn't changed at all.
Another thing I'd like to point o·.lt now, too , was
the chest pack was in the way of bringing the
handle down to a full-crank position.
And I
wanted definit ely to do this because you can
interrupt the sequence of the dogs if you don ' t