John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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things taped together.
I l eft the door open the
whole flight after we once unstowed it. I would
leave a meal floating out so that when I wanted
to get a meal I would reach up and grab the meal
that was floating loose. I would pul l the tape
out until I got a hold of the tape so I could
force another meal out of the box.
Then I would
cut the first meal off and we'd eat it. I managed
to get all the food out of the box ~ithout getting
out of my seat. The left-hand side box had the
film stowed in it and it was easily accessible.
I think the most useful stowage place that I had
in the spacecraft was the little Volkswagen-type
bag that we had made up and bolted on the center
pedestal .
Oh , that was a jewel .
We kept our checklists, maps , data books , and
procedure books in it. When we went to sleep and
had a change of command and we wanted to get to
one of the pieces of equipment that the other
gu:y had, we almost invariably stuck it in that
little pouch.
I really thi.nk the most useful
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