Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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fully stroke the ha"'l.dle each ti.maL
\Je went back up so that I could "ictually see a"ld
observe the levers .
This was the time Jim sa..id
to th.row the visor o·.1t because w,~ pr:)ba.bly would­
n ' t o_pe'!1 th1, hatch aga.i.n , onca w,3 g8t it closed .
And this see~ed like very goo1 so:md advice to
me .
The o:':1.ly thing I was a little q·.1esti::m1ible
abou ~ 1,1a::; that 'it this ti.mt, I ha.ii the inkling
in my mind that we ~ight spend quite a bit of
time g':tti ng this hatch closed , and I mi.gh·~
want t he visor when 1 was back out ~i1 j·1. .
B'..lt
I thoilght the judgmfmt to t hro·11 the v ls'.:>r out
was best and I threw it 0'.1t--opaned the door
abo'..lt a foot and a half and thr.ew the vlsor out .
The next t ime we canlf? back dow:1, I was s t ill
having the l i ttle bit of p:oblem with the cramps,
but not ~-9arly the pr~obl:=:m 1 wa'9 having with the
gain lever .
One superseded the o LheT.
That ' s right .
0~1e p.::-oblem became of much higher
m:agnitude tha!l the other .
So this was the t ime
that we started ·Norking .
I k."lew what I hai. to d-J .
I knew I had to work the gai n lever in sequP.nce
with the han1le again , juAt like ~e had w~en we
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