Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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ready strapped myself into the spacecraft.
had my survival gear hooked up, my shoulder
harness hooked up and my lap belt on loosely.
We did the things that I could do by myself,
such as stow·ing the ventilation module and
stowing the cabl e.
You were doing other things.
That's what I said.
We were coming up to
Carnarvon.
I was shooting to have all this
stuff put away by then.
We didn't have it all
put away but we had most of it done, where I
could actual ly get around to flying the space­
craft again.
We checked in with Carnarvon , and
confirmed our retrofire time.
We weren't
really supposed to pick up our retrofire dat a
until we passed over the States .
From Car­
narvon on up to the States, we ~ontinued to
stow away little bits of pieces that we had.
I think you were still eating.
We finally de­
cided that you ' d better stop eating or we
weren't going to be ready for reentry.
With a little prethought I had taken one meal ,
prepared it and set it aside so I could eat
it just before reentry.
This is what I was