Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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guilty and it has -Lo be fixed.
2.
I recommend that at least the egress kit on
the right of the crew compartment be remo·red
to provide more room in the spacecraft .
see no reason for it being in t here.
I think
it wo•.1ld be worth the effort a~d the ajdition-­
al money to p.rovlde the extra room .in the
spacecraft.
So , my second recommendation ,::m
EVA is to remove the egress k.Lt, at least
from the right -hand side, to provide more
head room.
Yes, that ' s good.
I might add that it ' s a good
thi.ng that we had that egress kit modified- to
the m:i.nimu.11 height, because without that we would
have been in deep trouble.
That's right.
Yes .
You and I had been telling each other t hat
that was the biggest thing we did on our whole
nine months prior to the f l ight- -to get that
thing cut rlown .
I ·t1.1ink it sure paid for itself
on ou:r. flight .
3.
My third item is to make the bar and lanyard
completely foolproof in strength.
That was a
device that provided us with the added force
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