Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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McDivitt
the booster. Either the camera, or better yet a
16 mm camera with a normal lens on it .
Just tuck
it to the side of your leg.
If I had thought
about it I think this is what I would have done-­
just connected the camera, tucked it by my leg,
and taken pictures of the booster at this time.
I think, Ed, this is probably one of those philo­
sophical things.
On the first orbit you've got to
save to prepare to come back in case you have a
bad spacecraft.
You 've got to be ready to reen­
ter during the first orbit . Tuis is the kind of
bind we found ourselves in up there. During the
first orbit we really had a lot to get ready for
halfway through the second orbit, but on the other
hand we had to be in good enough shape so we could
reenter it at 2-1. Now, we didn't have anything
to go wrong so there wasn't any problem, but I
think when you first get into orbit you're in a
problem. This kind of a thing, I think, is a
problem you may have later on.
You've got to be
ready to eject at lift-off plus one second, and
you don't want to be sitting there holding a
camera or something like that. Both your hands
are busy.
But like you said we could stow it
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