Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
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When we get the thing repr essurized , we'll start
doing something." That was exactly what we
did. I did finally extend the HF antenna and t ry
to call somebody on HF and let them lmow that we
were back in safely and that the t hing was re­
pressurizing.
I didn ' t get any response until we
got to CE:.r ".arvo·1 , which was about three minutes
l ater.
I called and told them that we were re­
pressurizi ng and had the hatch closed.
You lmow, that was some pretty good gage reading
that we saw when we got the first 1/2 psi.
The first 1/2 psi. Ha! Ha!
That was really a big one.
Since we ' ve described
the whole operation we 'd like to go back now
and specifically point out the pieces of equip­
ment that we used and our opinions of them, a few ·
features that came out loud and clear to us i n
operation, general conclusions on EVA as an
operation, and what we have to 10 to make it an
operational procedure. So the first thing I ' ll
do is go down through the equipment.
As an
overall comment on the equipment, I would say I
felt very confident the equipment i,:ould do the
job.
And without question the equipment performed