Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
White
We turned off all our electrical equipment and
couldn' t read the gages .
We left the hatches
closed.
We were in moderate seas, but I wasn't
about to open those hatches up and take the
chance of any water getting in that spacecraft.
So we elected to stay in the spacecraft until they
got the collar on, and kept all the hatches battened
down ,
Okay, we both discussed this together and decided
that the way we 'd like to leave the spacecraft
was in our suits, and we felt that rescue was
coming pretty quick.
We decided to go ahead and
stay in our suits.
I think this was a reasonable
decision.