Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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self by holding onto the hat ch. It was also
surprising to me how much force it took to open
the h.:i,tch the first time against the p·!'eload and
the actuaters , due to the seals.
One other very
good decision was to have me wear the heavy suit
and Jim the light suit.
I think thi~ was one
of the thine-s that made our opera.tio;1. easier. It
certainly m~de my getting back in the spacecraft
a::1d Jim's assista.1ce in closing the h;~tch much
easier for him ,
Hlso , I was handing him things
in a"'.ld out .
He was performing quite a bit
of coordination in the operation with pieces
of equ.ipt1ent thA-t were going in 'ind o·.1t of the
spacecraft , and I l:>elieve t hat by being in
that 1ight s:.ii t he ·11as able to do this tni.1,::h
easier than if he had been in a heavy suit .
I might make a comment on that suit, too.
When
we opened up t he hatch we were in~ vacuum.
n::iticed that the temperature of thA suit dropped
slightly so thci.t the suit was a little bit
cooler inside .
I was w)ndering if I was going
to get too cold through the suit, but the rest of
the time we were out the the temperature never
changed .
I don ' t remember looking ~t the suit
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