Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
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7,5 Spacecraft Status
McDivitt
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McDivitt
We did a lot of work when we first landed.
We
were fiddling all over and getting things out of
boxes and stuff like that. We probably did more
concentrated manual labor in those first
5
minutes after we got on the water than we had done
at any other time during the flight except trying
to get the hatch closed.
I think at this time I was completely drenched with
sweat .
I said it wasn't hot earlier, but with the
combination of the suits and the fairly warm
climate that we were in, I was sweating pretty
heavy.
I looked over at Jim, and he was pr~tty
sweaty · too , I think.
We didn't have any RCS fumes .
We didn't see any
RCS colored smoke , which is supposed to be red and
purple or yellow or something like that .
We didn't
see any fumes at all.
I saw a little steam.
I saw steam.
I saw a little steam coming out of the RCS thrusters ,
and I was sure that there wasn't any RCS propellant
in those manifolds, because at the rate we were
gyrating around with that tight deadband on Rate
Command, if we hadn't burned all that fuel up by
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