Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
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You could see them though?
Yes, I could see them .
At least I coul:1 3ee what
positions they were in .
I could see the little
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lever operating unde-r the spring:..._where I was
actually operating the spring on the g~in leve-r.
This is where I think we grJt some very good team­
w~rk, because it was neces sary that Jim pull
do·tJn in conjunctio-:-i with the time that I pulled
down on the c,1osing handle and Jperated the
ga:i.n l ~ver .
I just hope that the tape worked
because I can rem~mber I was in there .
Jim was
talking to me , and. then when it came to ~he point
when we really had to make the big pull I felt a
little torque on the handle .
I knew that we had
it at that time if we co:.ild only get the hatch
down ,;lose enough so that the dogs W')uld engage .
And I ca..~ remember giving the old--I think I was
yelling HEAVE! HE.LIVE!
Is th13.t what I was yelling.'
I think so .
.And tt was in perfect ti~1d.,1ig, because I could see
Jim or I could see the hatch come do~n each time
that I was yelling IE.AVE !
I think it was
probably the mast--.
The most int eresting mome!'lt of the flight.
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