Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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White
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
Whi i;P
Yes . It was the most interesting moment of the
flight , but I think i.t was probably the m::.H,t , if
you wan~ to say, draimitic.
I don 1t know the
right word .
But it was probably the most
dramatjc moment of my life. About those 30
seco:i.ds we spent t'ight there.
The dogs started
l~tching.
I co~ld feel them going in, and then
I could feel them co~e over dead-center.
Jim
called out that the dogs were in.
I knew that once we got them moving we'd be all
right .
Yes , once they started coming in.
As long as
we got those dogs to engage , with the little
lever that permitted them to come out and l~ck,
I knew that we hn.d it hacked.
Yes .
So did I. Even i f
e "ould 'tave had to
reenter with the hatch in that position, we 1d
have been all right.
I don 1t thi.nk that the
heat leaks were that tremendous.
I knew we could continue and dog it on in all the
way. It seems like whenever you know you're
right on something, you want to be darn sure
that they fix it. This was going through my
mind then.
And I remembered that I felt I was