Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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a type of tether. I think you m.ight even be able
to do something alo~g the line of just having
some fenale velcro on the gloves and pieces of
the male velcro at points along th~ adapter.
This might provide us at least some attach:nents
so th~t we could maneuver o'.lrselves back to the
adapter sect.i.oP..
This wo'.lli be about the sim•­
plest kind of handle that we could use.
I do
believe that we need some type of handles on the
outside of the spacecraft .
Jim suggested one o~
the nose and in the cover on the R & R section
up there .
I think this is an area that we cer­
tainly have a possibility of using.
I certainly
would have found it useful.
I woul d still be a
little h~sitant, though , o.f breaking the an­
tenna.
You wo'..lld want to be sure that this
wouldn't be hroken during EVA .
I think the
feeling I had o'..lt there, again, was like
holding onto an 8-foot tree .
There wasn't any­
thing to hold onto.
You definitely need some
kind of hand- holds .
The decision to leave the
hatch open was one of the best decisions that
we made . It provided me with a center of oper­
ations for my work.
I was able to stabilize my­
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