Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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14, 13 Zero-G
Fl i ght
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think that during the flight it certainl y
proved that it was worthwhile, because that was
the way we got it, and we wer e able to get this
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information in a usable
manner in a short time .
We didn ' t have to go over and over and over.
I
don ' t have any other comment on that .
F.d?
No .
The zero- g flights are the next topic.
I sort
of feel that the zero-g flights were one of our
most valuable training tools , especially since
we were going to do the extravehicular activity
portion of t he flight .
Without this we wouldn't
have had the confidence in ourselves in getting
in and out of the spacecraft and opening and
closing the hatch that was required , so that we
probably wouldn't have even done it.
F.d , do you
have any other comments on that?
Concerning the little bit of a hatch problem
that we did have, I think that the work t hat I
had done on the zero-g airplane sur e prepared
me well to meet the problem t hat we had.
I
recommend very highly that for any egress work,
in which we 're going in and out of the space­
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