Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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a little auxiliary light like thatl it
ought to be a light-­
It ought to be a big auxiliary light !
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a directed beam. This goes right back to
something that we forgot to point out in water
management.
I think we ought to point it out
right now loud and clear. I think that we have
to have a system in which we can gage the water
outflow.
I think the medical people feel fairly
strong about this also. I know that I restrained
from drinking because I didn't want to drink all
the water out of there prior to the end of the
four days. I got a feeling Jim was doing the same
thing.
That's right. I was doing exactly the same thing.
I didn't drink abundantly at any time during the
flight except perhaps right before the r3entry.
I felt I was taking quite a bit of moisture with
my reconstituted food.
I felt that if I overdid
it t he first part of the fligh~, we wouldn't get
through the last part, because water is so critical.
That's right. We've got a number of expendp.~les
like OAMS, and we've got a couple of gages for