Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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Some time later, but we don't know whether we got gimmied around in the spacecraft or whether it was my big fat handed glove I turned the wheel and actually turned it about - you have to turn it this way to find out what you turned it to and I am afraid - of course I held it this way and I could have done that with the hand on the clock. So, this might be one source of error which would have been due to the operation of it. Another one though, that we had prior to the time that continuous taking pictures, the inside shutter doesn't back - doesn't open - so you drop the front shutter all you want and you get a black frame and we got quite a weries of black frames on the film. But this may be a mechanical problem that we had, as far as operating the camera, the mounting of the camera on the gun itself, made it difficult to operate. The same thing, if you had a camera that was 3 foot wide and one and one-half foot long it would be harder to operate.

I realize that. I noticed that in one of your shots from the spacecraft you had a white smear in the print. Now, is that one you experienced also during your training period?

The white smear, I believe is the picture Jim took of the window, and it had that smear on the window.

No, this was in the print itself. You know the one I am referring to.

Yes, the one you took right right front nose straight into Jim's window. Is this the one with the white symmetrical streak all the way across the window.

That's right.

There are 2 frames.