Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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there because of the lack of confidence in the
strength of it.
Everything I had was in it over there .
I was
pulling down with my legs as hard as I could and
operating.
I was pulling on the handle .
I
remember one< time you said , "Hey don ' t pull on
that handle so hard ! You're going to break it! "
I was cautioning you to take it easy, which you
don't usually have to do.
This was when we were yelling HEAVE!
I was
heaving on the handle as I was pulling it down
each time . It felt like to me that the handle
was giving.
But I didn't give a darn! If it
broke, it was going to break.
So o:".e of the
points we learned out of this was we'd like to
see the bar and lanyard strengthened.
Let me say one thing about the decision to go
ahead and open up the latch.
I f we hadn ' t done so
much work together with this hatch and run t hrough
just about every problem that we could possibl y
have had , I would have decided to leave the hatch
closed and skip the EVA when we first started
having trouble with it .
We had encountered j , .st
every conceivable pr oblem that we could possibly
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