Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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and I was trying to be very careful and keep them
from cracking and getting anymore uncomfortabl e
than they were .
Jim mentioned the CO
sensors
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stayed on zero, which I was happy to see .
I
think one thing that I was fairly happy about was
that the suit , as bulky as it was , wasn ' t depres­
singly uncomfortable.
I felt that I did have a
pretty heavy suit on most of the time , and I was
a little bit constrained in my mobility.
The
i dea to have the detachable sleeves that I could
take off after the EVA work was , I felt, a very
good decision.
I felt much more comfortable ,
and I had a much higher degree of mobility around
with my arms in the spacecraft. It was not as
tiring to move around as it had been when I was
inside the heavy sleeves .
So , I was quite happy
to take them off.
We took them off, I believe,
shortly after my first sleep.
I slept with t hem
on the first time, and then we took them off.
think they were quite easy to take off.
As a
matter of fact, I think if you went EVA at a
later time you could take those sleeves onboard,
and if they were made just a little aasier to
slip on and off over the wrist, you could take
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