Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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side , were not noticeable to the touch at all .
I
didn't use a right hru1d thermal glove at any time
during the flight .
I took it off w~en I was
opening the l'.e.tch and, as I pointed out earlier,
it floated off during the EVA operation.
I didn ' t
have opportunity to use it again if I had wanted
to. Coming back i n we had difficulty closing the
h~tch, and I , at this time , removed my left hand
glove and used the plain pressure s-.1it gloves
for this operation .
The press'.lre suit gloves
were comfortable .
In fact , there were no sen­
sations of either hot or cold through my gloves .
White
Th: gcU1 , I think , was an outstanding point in
the flight, a highlight of the flight . It
worked just as we had felt it would work and it
was , I felt , simple to operate .
The training
t hat I had. on the air-bearing platform provided
me adequate orientation in the use of the
space gun.
I think that now that we have a little
more t ime to prepare ourselves for the next time
we use this gun, t raining with it on zero-g
flights would be appropriate .
I don ' t believe
we will have any t rouble using it in the zero-g
aircraft .
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