Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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have particular use for in the early part of the
flight . If we ca~ lick the p~oblems in opening
and closing of the hatch, we can store equipment
in the back of the adapter section as a routine
operation .
That ' s right .
I think the extravehicul ar activ­
ities have proved to other people what we all
ready knew a long time ago--that 'FNA is quite
simple .
I think the thing we ' ve got to iron out
is the hatch opening and closing. This is
really our. problem.
I don ' t think you or I will
ever have any doubt about the extravehicular
activity.
That was , I thought , going to be
pretty straightforward . It looked like to me it
was pretty straightforward.
I felt that I could operate equipment 01.1t there.
I co,1ld assemble equipment .
I could put pins
in, pull pins o~t, and screw thLngs in.
I did
all these things during the flight.
I tu.rn~d th.a
gun ::m , a::i.d I put i n the pin to operate the um­
bilical guide .
I attachad the camera.
I don ' t
think yo~ could do these operations very effect­
ively with big heavy gloves on.
Alth:>Ugh my
gloves oper ated satisfactorily, I think that for
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