Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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get it back in. I finally ended up actually using
two hands to operate the water gun so that I
could get the button back out.
The button definitely did get more friction in it
as the flight progressed.
It seemed like it was all scored up and it kept
getting worse and worse and worse as the flight
went on. This could have been a major disaster
too. If we had that gun squirting water inside
the spacecraft , you'd have had water all over the
place. I'll be the first to say that we made a
real effort to keep the water out of the space­
craft.
We wanted to get four days out of the
flight. I felt one of the major probierns would
be the humidity in the spacecraft .
As it turned
out, it wasn't a problem.
We didn't know it right
off the bat and we were really concerned about the
water. The last thing I wanted to do was to have
an open water nozzle running into the spacecraft .
So I think that takes care of that .
I think the
whole water management panel ought to be clarified
before we fly GT-5.
We were arguing about what
position the waste .Mmagement Switch was going to
be in during the countdown to launch.
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