Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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right arm lift up and I saw him pull his left one
up.
No, I didn't get my left one up.
I made three
passes and I said to heck with it.
I thought you got it. I struggled with mine end
finally got it up.
I had both of mine up, and
you went on and completed the checklist .
I knew Ed wanted me to get my D-ring out because
I was the guy that was going to have to bail us
out.
Again I'd come down with this big bag of stuff
resting on my legs up against the bottom of
the seat, and as we approached 35 000 feet, I
pulled this up in my lap, and just held it. We
had agreed that Jim would do the ejection if we
had to, and I would just take the ride.
I
didn't W1stow my D-ring.
I just sat there.
That 's why I made pretty sure that Jim got his
out.
After we got on the main, we went through and
turned off all the switches, just as we were
planning on doing it. I turned off all the
switches on the middle circuit breaker panel
except the ones on the last couple of rows.
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