Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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I agree with you.
I think we 've got a good
operational procedure of bracing your head on
your arm up against the window--a satisfactory
procedure for this .
6.11 Postmain Checklist Items
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We took the blood pressure on the main chute , too.
I went through what I call the reinforcement
items on the checklist that I wanted to get off
right away , and t hen I sat back and pumped off
another blood pr essure .
About this time you were
making your calls to the recovery force.
Right .
I started calling the recovery forces
as F,d was taking his blood pressure.
We got
some response from Omnibus right away.·
Good old Omnibus .
Yes.
And we went right on down.
We stowed
the D-ring covers .
We stowed the D-ring
cover s between deploying the main chute and
going to two-point, just as we had planned.
We
didn ' t want the D-ring to flop around there, and
once you go to two- point it's too late to
eject anyway.
I call ed Jim to unstow his D-ring at 35 000 feet
and he took his out at that time.
I pulled his
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