Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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There were a lot of things we could do.
We could have gone around several orbits working
on cl osing the hatch.
That wasn ' t the last time
we were going to get a chance to close it .
So ,
there were things left if we understood , and
ot her procedures we could have used to go ahead
and close it .
When we got it cl osed back in, I
was completely soaked wasn ' t I?
Yes .
You were really bushed .
Sweat was just pouri ng down.
In fact , I could
hardl y see . It was in my eyes .
So I told you, "Just sit ther e and I ' ll get a
r epr ess .
Don' t even move for 30 minutes ."
I just left the r epress valve wher e it was .
I
closed the vent valve and we had a lot of in••
structions from the ground to close the water
seal and e. A1ole bunch of other things that didn't
make any sense to me .
I knew that the spacecraft
was repressurizing.
I watched .
There wasn ' t
anything else ttat we had to do right then , and
we were both bushed, especially Fd.
He was
perspir'.ng so that I could hardly see him inside
the fact plate .
So, I just said ,"You sit there
and I ' ll sit here and we'll just coast around.
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