Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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down that way.
But I had about all the pull I
had in me on that last-­
I know you did .
--on that last thing and I had a lot of mechanical
advantage over it. When we went to that canvas
strap we would have had to go with no mechanical
advantage.
As a matter of fact, a mechanical
disadvantage.
This is one thing that didn't fail, but I
recommend that it be made stronger.
Stronger anywny!
I think so .
For nothing else than a psychological purpose .
Right. I'd like to take the spacecraft now and
see if I could break it, because I had the
feeling that I never had been confident that that •
attachment nor the bar nor the lanyard were
strong enough.
When I say I was really pulling as strong as I
could, I really had some pull left in me, but
I guess what I should have said is that I was
pulling about as hard as I dared pull at the time.
I guess I could have pulled another few pounds,
but I hated to apply more than was needed on