John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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dent in the pile of junk that we had in the
spacecraft.
IL.was apparent to1,me at ·I.hat
time that we were going to have to go a lot
faster than we were going or we'd still be up
there stowing stuff away at retrofire time.
So , Ed and I then went into high gear and we
really started stuffing stuff away.
We put
the film in the middle food box, and we put
the caJDeras and some of the refuse, including
three defecation bags, exerciser, and some
other things, in the left-hand aft food b·ox.
I took a lot 1,nger to stow the equipment than
we had planned.
Do you have any comments on
that?
Yes , I thought this also .
We had just every­
thing out prior to this time.
We hadn ' t
really been able to stow anything.
We used
every piece of our equipment right up to the
time we started our stowage.
In fact, I think
you were getting a little uneasy there for a
little while that we weren ' t going to get it
all in,
That's right. At the rate we were going, we
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