Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
White
assembly of i terns you wa.---it to have ....--you ought to
look into the glove area a little more thoro'.lg'hly
anii try to get a piece of a glo-re ·,1ith so:ne
type of a surface that will give us some heat
protection and gives us a high sensitivlty of
feel through it .
The big conclusions , the final
co~~lusions , that I ' d like to draw are that EVA
can be made a normal routine operation if the
following modificatio~s are made to the space­
craft :
1.
The highest priority is that the spring back
there on the gain lug has convicted itself
and I don't believe that that's a good design.
There should be s:>me way ths.t either the l ub­
ricatio:?1 is :nA.de foolproof or the spring mH.de
stronger .
I think what we really want to say here is that
the locking mechanism is inadequate as it is ,
compl etely inadequate .
Until i t is fixed , I
think we should take it easy.
Th11.t 1s right .
I think we almost had a bad experi­
m:,e with ths.t gain thing.
We knew about it ahead
of ti.me .
We thought we had it fixed, but it ' s
not fixed .
I think it convicted itself and it's
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