Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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contraption that McDonnell had designed to keep
the moisture out of that thing, we would have
had one more hunk of junk in the spacecraft with
us. It would have been a completely ·useless thing
because of the nwnber of times that we switched
switches on that VCC .
Heck, we switched switches
on the VCC more than all the other switches on
the spacecraft put together.
I think if we would
have had to pull off that big piece of plastic
every minute, it would have gone on the floor and
stayed there. That's right.
That was a very poor fix to try to solve a bad
design.
Okay, why don't you talk about that sleep config­
uration?
Okay, with the sleep configuration, we lmew right
away we had bought a weenie.
The first time I
tried to go to sleep, we tried to turn everything
off.
We tried turning all my volumes down to zero.
We turned to PUSH.JIIO.JI'ALK only, and I could still
sit there and hear it about a one by one level.
It was just enough so I could hear audibly what
was going on and understand if I paid attention