Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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11.s it was <dvertised . It performed just exactly
as it hsd been designed .
There wasn ' t one thing
on t hem as f ar as the VCM , the umbil ical, t he
gloves , the gun , and the visor that didn ' t
perform just exactly as it had been designed .
·1. 111 take them all one piece at a time , and dis­
cuss them a little .
I ' ll start right with the
visor . The visor was a rather controver sial
piece of equipment from the beginning.
And I,
for one , doubted a little bit t he necessity for
quite the pr otection t hat we were providi ng,
although I had helped right from the beginning
in the design wi th some of our ideas on the viso~
It turned out though , and I commented on this
during the t i me that I was out , that I was very
happy to have the visor, I was able to look
directly into the suniight .
1 did so in instal••
ling the camer a on t he back of the adapter .
I
felt that the vision out of the visor , was about
as it would be on a normal sunn;,r day.
This is
because it is so br ight up there in space .
I
fel t
2:>.s if my vision was what I would consider
normal .
I was looking at the different parts
of the spacecraft and down at the ground, and
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