Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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amount of marks on it . I'll say another thing.
I'm sure glad we didn ' t go in for those Lexan
visors that they wanted us to fly with, cause the
distortion woul d have driven me batty in about
the first six hours .
I think you must insist on perfectly optically
clear visors .
That ' s right .
You 've got to have good optics .
I took my helmet off about three times , and I
didn ' t leave it off very long.
I took mine off about two times .
I took it off
one time for an hour because my hair right above
my ears was really bothering me .
I didn ' t bother
getting a light- weight headset out , and when any­
body called me , I had the thing sitting in my
l ap and I could hear it .
I took one of the • ~ . ~
and pulled it back and I hollered into the mike,
Ha , ha.! 1 till I could hear it .
I s~id, "I 've got
my helmet off.
Unless you've got something im­
portant to tell me , don't bother me ." .Ha, ~a!
And he said, "Okay ." It was one of those passes ,
you know , where you only talk to one guy for about
an hour . Then I took it off one other time for
about a half hour to rub my ears .
I was quite
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