Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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relatively low•, and that the water problem is not
quite the problem we had it cracked up to be .
I ' ll make a comment on the sponge material on the
side of the spacecraft at this point ,since we ' re
talking about humidity.
I didn ' t think the sponge
material was a very good idea to begin with but
once it was in there and we flew with it, I think
it was-­
It was a real bad mistake!
Ha, h9.!
No, I thought it was all right in there. The only
thing wrong with it was what they had it treated
with for fire- proofing.
I thought that part of
it was unpardonable.
There is no excuse whatso­
ever for having those ammonia vapors and the hy­
drogen sulfate~or whatever those other things
were that we had permeating around the spacecraft.
We smelled bad enough, but it was no contest when
it came to comparing ourselves with the spacecraft .
It smelled worse.
If there was any moisture it grabbed it all. I
don't really think there was any moisture for it
to grab.
I don 1t think so either, Ed.
I kept feeling that