Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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McDivitt
White
McDivitt
White
I suspect I probably could have gotten down there
as easy or easier than you if I had really gotten
around to trying.
I don ' t remember, but , anyhow, I was surprised
with the ease which I had in getting down .
We were trying to dump the pressure in the bellow
before we went EVA with it .
Right .
The demand regulator was satisfactory.
Ivzy­
umbilical,I thought,was very easy to use and
disconnect .
I was quite happy to have the micro­
dot in there.
One comment on the micro-dot--the
first time we exercised the micro- dots on our
suit , they were pretty hard to operate.
Mine got
progressively easier to use each time I used it .
The fingertip lights that I had were better than
Jim' s .
I ha:l lights with Lexan tops on them.
All my lights worked, and r felt that their
operation was quite satisfactory.
We had decided
to put my lights between the first and second
joints for several reasons.
We thought the EVA
gloves would be easier to don and there'd be less
tendency to break them.
I think, though, the
position of the lights was still a little too far
forward if it was intended to put them back between