John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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and continued so until about 40 seconds and sta­
bilized out at 5.5 and I made my call in.
I
think I might have called in on RECORD.
You did.
I switched and made the final call at about 1:10,
I realized I called on REDORD and switched over,
How high did it go? Did it go to 5.5?
5. 5 and it stayed right there.
And then I
noticed later on it progressively leaked off until
it got to 4.9 where it stayed.
The suit? There
really isn' t anything to say about the suit.
No, I
don' t have anything to say about the suit.
It oi:erated like it was supposed to.
The noise built up gradually until we got to max
q , then it just dropped off.
The deterioration of the noise was almost instan­
taneous.
Very quick, It wasn ' t instantaneous , but it was
very quick.
In fact, it startled me when we separated.
I didn't notice anything on the rate needles that
had anything to do with the windshea.r
I couldn't