Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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them for a flashlight. I had my gl oves off and I
reached over and got my gloves and turned the
fingertip lights on and shined the gloves on some­
thing.
I didn't use them a lot.
I do want to
comment on one thing , though , since we ' re talking
about the suits here.
I launched without the plug
that goes in the blood pressure port in the suit .
I don ' t feel we should launch these things with
no plug to plug up the blood pressure port in the
suit , especially when we ' re going EVA .
I think
that was a mistake.
The only pressure points I had
in the suit were in the helmet .
Those were just
above my ears where I tended to move my head back
and forth within the helmet.
I finally rubbed up
all the hair so that it was going in the wrong
direction.
When you press against hair for a long
time in the wrong direction it becomes very uncom­
fortable.
At about the end of 2 3/4 days I took
my helmet off for a couple of hours, and it felt a
lot better.
The only problem is that when you have
your helmet off there is no place to stow it. We
had the foot wells full of gear, so when I had the
helmet off I just let it float around on my lap,
and over in Ed' s lap.
There wasn ' t any place to