Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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of them out on my right hand.
I wasn ' t too happy
about it.
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I was a little disappointed.
I think the only
discrepancy I found in my suit was that I had no
blood pressure plug either.
A point that I was
pretty happy with was that I had no pressure points
from my suit at all on my body.
I had one set of
pressure points from my helmet pressing down on the
front forward part of my head.
I lmew why this
was.
I 'd had Joe Schmitt adjust my cables so that
I could pull my helmet down to a maximum amount
for the EVA work.
I felt that I just bought this
discomfort by having my cables adjusted in this
manner.
It was pretty uncomfortable though. I
checked out the use of the emergency bottles on
the EVA equipment and they worked as they were
supposed to .
I was able to regulate the flow.
Incidently, before I went out the reading on the
EVA bottles was full-scale, 3400 pounds . I was
happy to see that.
All in all, I was quite happy
with the suit.
I think it was a very well designed
suit and it met the requirements that were levied
upon it. It was a heavy suit and a big suit to
wear for four days, but I felt the auit wasn ' t as
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