Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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that rings should be replaced with something that
doesn't come undone .
My rings came undone sev­
eral times during the flight and luckily only
one at a time came undone. It would have been
a real mess if a:ny of these books would have come
apar~ because it would have destroyed numerical
sequence.
So, I think something other than rings
ought to be used . .
I tell you one thing I found.- -that size boo.k and
that concept that we had, I think, was really good.
That was just the right size.
It ' s just the right size. Their sheets are big
enough where you can write a.lot on them.
They' re easy to handle.
They' re small enough so they ' re easy to handle .
They' re easy to stow.
They fit into the flight
suit. When we launched, I had both flight sets
of data cards in my right lower pocket and the big
data book and my procedures book in my left-hand
lower pocket. I had all the checklists right on
my spacesuit..
I had one procedure book and both my cards.
And both your cards .
So that between. the two of
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