Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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About haliwny
through the dump, it started
slowing down .
Then it just went in very slowly
the last two or three inches .
Then I urinated in
the thing and had a bellows full of a mixture of
air and urine . It started dumping. It looked
like it went down about halfway and then it
stopped.
I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it
wasn't the air going out of it. It w.ent very
slowly for ju.st a short time and then it stopped
completely.
Nothing else would go out of it .
S~
turned off the Flush Switch and I went from
OVERBOARD to EVAPORATOR,and it flushed through
the evaporator.
We had one more urine dump through
the evaporator and this worked all right .
Well,
I 'm sure glad that we had those two ways of work­
ing it . All the way through the flight after I 'd
dumped the urine through this thing, I kept say­
ing
1:w-ell, McDonnell finally designed this thing
so it works after about 30 or 40 attempts and
redesigns :' But I guess I was over-optimistic be­
cause it did drop out just before the flight .
It finally got to work for 88 hours.
We didn't
use the E~aporator Film Mode .
Okay, Ed, why don't