Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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--and the Water Valve should be put in NORMAL
NORMAL.and left there. That was ~xa.ctly what we
did and we knew how to work the waste management
valve.
We didn't screw it up, but I ' m not sure
that if with a little trying, we couldn't have .
We never had to use the Evaporator Fill Mode.
The Flush Mode,or the waste ·management portion of
the thing,had a couple of different positions .
In the normal OVERBOARD position and in using
the Preheat and Flush switch over on the side,
we managed to dump a large number of urine dumps
through this.
We dumped both our launch- day
urine bags which were full. I probably urinated
eight or ten times and you probably about five
or six t i mes.
About five times .
About five times .
So we had a lot of dumps
through this thing. At 92 hours it stopped work­
ing.
Ed had filled up the bellows pretty well
just before this. I was the man in charge of
dumping urines, it seemed like .
The Urine Dumper!!!
I was the only one who could reach the knobs and
switches . It ~ nerally went down in spurts.
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