Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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White
McDivitt
White
McDivitt
That's r ght.
It got up to about 90.
100, it was.
We turned the cabin heat exchanger
on for just a short time and it went right back on
down to 80 degrees.
It stayed in the area of 82 to 83 degrees the whole
flight.
The humidity in the suit must have been pretty dry
because rrry foot dried out.
I didn't take any wet­
bulb readings inside the suit. The CO2 stayed at
zero all the time. It never did go up except when
we'd go to o High Rate, when it would bound off
2
the top peg and fall back down again.
The comfort
and suit controls were pretty reasonable.
The o2
demand regulator seemed to work all right .
My
umbilicals were short.
My fingertip lights were
lousy. Before_launch I only had one that worked.
On rrry right-hand glove one of the bulbs obviously
didn't work.
One of them did work.
On rrry left­
hand glove the switch on the batteries would only
turn the lights on if it was in one exact position,
vh.ich wasn't full throw in either direction.
So I
found out I had only one fingertip light that
worked.
However, during the flight I didn't use
my' fingertip lights except one time when I used ·