Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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·::·ou conld have n::..lt iple attachment points around
the spacecraft .
Of course , now , if you have a g-..m with a good air
sour0e, I wouldn't particularl y care where it
was attached .
I thi.nk you could go ahead a..'ld,
maneuver to a:ny point you want if you have a gun.
Again, when you're p~shing off of surfaces , you
tend to go perpendicular to the surface from
which you push off.
I found when I p·.lshed as
hard as I wanted to I'd still tend to go straight
up above that hatch instead of ou t toward the
fron·~.
I think this is a fairly obvious con­
clusion, but it proved out .
Everytime I pushed
off I went straight up instead of at an angle
to the surface where I wanted to go .
So!lle thi.ag that you should bear in mind is that
yo•.1 were pushing off fro!ll the front whi.ch
tended to make the front go down as you went
out .
Yes.
Everything was working against getting
where I wanted to go.
Everything I did tended
to put me up.
When you started you went in a straight li.ne
forward and tended to p~sh the spacecraft down.