Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
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McDivitt
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I think, initially, where I was holding the
attitude, yo'J. didn't have that much trouble.
Of
course, you weren ' t pushing 13.S hard ei·~her, be­
cause you had the gun .
No , I wasn't .
Later on , when we started free drifting, you
w,~re ba~k behind m~J where I couldn' t see.
Did you feel me stomping around back on the
adapter and hitting the adapter.
Weil, I felt you hitting things back behind me
and once you went behind the line thEit was dir­
ectly over'.,.ead the spacecraft.
l cottldn' t see
you t hrough your open hatch.
I never reaEy had a good co.!ltact with the
adapter back there .
Just as -:,.r,21 l .
We W':r:.ildn ' t want to disturb those •
radiator tubes too much .
No,
Well, now that we 're back, we'll have some
conclusions on the adapter area.
I made it a
point right from the beginning -~o take
a look at the thermal lines , the thermal p~int
on the adapter. It looked like it was in good
shape . It was all there. There was discolor­
ation arou.~d the attitude thrusters , particularly,
GONFIDEt>ilTIA!