Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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thing and it was dry as could be .
There was no moisture that I could notice .
'lhe sponge stuff on the side wasn ' t objectionable
to me but the odor that obviously came from it
was very, very objectionable .
The readings we
obtained I thought, were easy to take. The stow­
age of the unit was not a problem. It was easily
stowed in the spacecraft while we were using it .
Okay, I have a few comments on the communications
which we ought to go on to .
We ' ll take them in
sequence .
Okay, why don ' t you go along I'll express my com­
ments .
I think the interphones worked pretty wel l .
I
noticed one thing, though, as we progressed along.
lf'he volume requirement on both my side and on Jim ' s
side needed to be increased all the time to get-
No , Ed.
I launched with all my volumes full up.
Is that right? Anyhow in my interphone, I pro­
gressively raised it as the f l ight went on .
Yes , I started off with mine almost all the way
up.
On the UHF it was absolutely all the way up,
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