Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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right in that the bar and the attachment on that
bar and lanyard were not strong enough .
I re­
membered that and I knew how hard you were pul­
ling on that thing.
I t hink , if nothing else,
they ought to :Je sure .
How many times did we
break that attachment at the bar?
We br oke the attachm~:mt abod; three or four t imes
on the zero-g airplane.
Everytime they kept
telling us it wasn't made out of the right kind
of stuff and the st~ff we were going to have in
the spacecraft would be the right material.
~•'ell ,
it didn't break in the spacecraft .
Just coin­
cidently, or maybe because we both had doubts
about the strength of that particular piece .
The same thing crossed through my mind .
I was
thinking t hat the success or failure of this
hatch closure depends on whether this hatch
closing device st ays hooked onto t hat space­
craft and doesn ' t break offo
We would have been flat out of luck!
We would have been in deep trouble !
I 'm not sure
we wouldn ' t have been able to get the hatch
closed, because we had put that canvas strap
on t here and I might have been able to pull you
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