Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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White
McDivitt
White
McDiv.i.tt
we w1:nt through it .
He unntowed evet'ything.
Why don ' t you tell them what you did there, Ed?
I just read the checklist off to you, and you
went a.head and riid i.t.
Okey.
I had to get bar.k .i.11":o the r"ight -h.md
box, and I un:=i tow0d the item:, there .
The
first time I went back in there , I took the
firs t items out, and I did :1ot unstow the full
box.
I rem,~mher I told you,
II It
I s all comi.r1g
out , Jim.
I ' m gol11g to bring them all out on
the 19.11yard. "
Remember?
Right .
We'd tak~ them o~f piece by piece if we need it.
At that tim,1 I pill lfld the wh0l,'! lanyard out and
the cockpit was full of little bags. I was qu.ite
happy that they had prevailed upon me to put
a lanyard on all this equipment.
I had thought
at one time that it woulri be mvt'd desiri-:l,bl~ not
to p,1t a lanya.rcl on .
We 'd been wo:::-k.ing a lot
in our sim11lations without the lanyard and it
seemed pretty easy.
But looking at it now, I
highly recom..n~nd that eve r-ybody k,-lep that stuff
on a l anyard .
We would have r eally had a mess if we 'd had all
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