Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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We both t ook our gloves off to get the things
out of the spacecraft that we wanted.
I left
my helme t on and Ed left his helmet off.
When
we got ready to leave , we decided that we would
put our gloves back on, take our helmets off,
put our neck dams on, inflate our May Wests , and
t hen get out .
That ' s what we did .
The sea
condit ion was just like they sa id it was- - three
to four feet .
Three t o four feet in that thing
is like 2000 foot waves to an aircraf t car rier.
We were bobbi ng around but we had a lot of
experience bobbing around before, so it wasn ' t
that bad.
I might add that the egress training
in the Gulf of Mexico really made me feel real
confident when I was out there in that water
all by myself.
When we get to that training, I ' m really going
to give some gold stars out .
-COt\JFIDE~ilAL