Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Oh, so I handed it over to him and then he took a
drink out of it and didn ' t have any problem at all .
What happened was the hose was wound in the helix .
It came out to the gun in a straight line .
When
I drank out of it on my side this thing always
crimped like it was an old rotten piece of rubber
that had been bent over in that position many
times before. It looked like something that came
out of a 1890 steamboat or something, instead of
a-­
It looks like your old oxygen mask hose.
That's right. It looks like my old rotten oxygen
mask hose .
So I think that we ought to get at
least a decent piece of hose in there. The next
thing is the water gun that you drink from.
You
push the button in and a little spigot would come
out and the wat er would start running out of it .
This worked great. You could always get the wa­
ter to come out when you didn 't have your hose
bent. It got worse and worse and worse and worse
and worse .
As far as returning it towards the
end of the flight , I almost drowned a couple of
times because I ' d get that thing out and I couldn't