Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
White
from the thrusting. The color of the thrusting
is just like the RCS thruating--nice and clear
plume. It looked lik~ from o~tside, thu".lgh, that
I could see a lot more of the plume than I could
when I w~s sitting inside the spacecraft looking
out at the RCS thrusters firing.
Again, the
cam,era was not attached in a.n opportune ma.n'ler
to operate.
Which camera? The camera on the spacecraft?
I'm really after that camera on the gun.
That
one wasn't attached gooa.
The cam-era on the spacecraft was okay. It was a
little difficult to attach because of the
attach'Dent on the bottom of it .
You can't have
it at any angle to make it engage. It has to
be perfectly flat with the mounting plate on the
bottom.
A big co:!1.clusion that I came to-- and
I' 11 see how you feel ab.:mt this one, Jim --I
feel that storage in the back of the adapter
section wa:s certainly a very high priority for
l ater missio:!1.s .
I feel that we can adequately
store eq·.1ipment in the adapter area, particularly
larger pieces of equipment that we don't have
room for in the crew station or pieces we don't