Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Yes, mine was right on it though.
I know .
You checked your suit gage against
the cabin pressure and yours read just about on
it, didn ' t it? Was it a tenth of a pound higher
or was it right on it?
Right on.
Okay.
So mine was reading a little higher,
indicating to me that possibly the cabin pres­
sure was higher.
But since Ed's read with it,
I don't know where we were .
Well, the pr essure at which it relieved at went
right into the problem of the temperature- pres­
sure relief in the cryogenic oxygen system so
t hat those two problems kind of lashed together.
The venting in the o2 system was set at around
970.
967, I think the poop sheet said.
Well, it was about 967 or 970.
We had the pos­
sibility of losing oxygen in a steady manner
out of the spacecraft if we let the pressure
rise up above- -well, the ground felt 960, and
I concurred with that figure .
So throughout
the flight we had to keep venting our o system
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