Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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noticed the acrid smell that we were to have for
the rest of the time we were out in the water.
On the ECS system I could actually feel the relief
that the pumps and the snorke1-open position were
giving us . It did provide some flow.
I really
didn ' t think tmt the heat was oppressively hot,
to tell the truth.
No, neither did I.
It vJS.S uncomfortably warm--I'll put it that way-­
and very stuffy, but I wouldn't say it was over­
bearingly hot. It wasn't as hot as I thought it
was going to be in the spacecraft.
I thought the worst thing about the whole thing was
the smell. Whatever was burning later was the
heat shield, I guess, because I went out and
smelled the spacecraft later on when I was onboard·
the carrier, and it smelled the same way.
This
terribly nauseating acrid smell was still all over
the spacecraft, and it seemed to be worse at the
heat shield.
So I assume that's what we were
smelling inside,
How was the control, Jim?
Spacecraft control in the water is lousy!
I couldn't
take out the motions.
The rates were terribl e
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