Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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There was one thing though with the suit that I
wasn't too happy with.
I was hot all the time
in the suit. It got so that after a while I got
used to the normal temperature as being warm.
I could incr ease the temperature, which seemed
rather strange to both Jim and me, by putting out
zey gloves and closing zey faceplate .
I could go
to sleep.
At that time zey temperature would go
up considerably inside the suit .
It seemed like
I coul d stay in there only an hour or an hour and
15 minutes and rest before I had to either open
up the faceplate or do something else. So, the
temperature got uncomfortably warm in about an
hour or an hour and fifteen minutes with the face­
plate closed, the sleeves on and the gloves on.
The humidity in the suit, I thought , was quite
dry.
I had quite a tendency for zey lips to crack
and nzy- nose to get very dry.
In fact, I noticed
zey nose was itching considerably. This was an
indicator to me every time I would go to sleep.
I would wake up with zey nose itching and feeling
quite hot and uncomfortable.
}zy- lips got to the
point where I thought they were going to crack,