Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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McDivitt
in the beginning when I was unstowing equipment .
I continued to scratch it throughout the mission.
When I finished , the visor was considerably
scratched up as you would pr obably notice if
you looked at my suit .
I don ' t know what there is
to do about this other than to accept a scratchy
visor.
If you 've got the visors down in front of your
face, you don ' t tend to scratch it up as much.
I think it was really worn out because you
started opening up your visor and leaving it up
over your head a lot earlier than I did. At about
the two and a half or three day mark, I looked at
your visor and it was really a mess .
I took the
helmet off and cleaned the visor because it was
dirty on the inside and the outside.
I looked at
my visor and had very few marks on it .
I had a
few l ittle scratches , but very minor.
Then I
started putting my vi sor up more and mor e be­
cause t hey wanted us to stay open.
Because I ' m
a lot taller than you are, I really started beat­
i ng mine up. In the last day, I think I caught
up with you and maybe even surpassed you in the