Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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Anyway, my suit leaked, they all do you know so that there is getting something on the inside, also, we had a lot of things in there that were probably outcast.

Also, the insides were dirty.

I don't agree with that. There was a definite flow of particles from the inside to the outside.

How did you get the glove outside.

I think that may have - -

No, the glove wasn't put out, it went out by itself.

I can't say for sure that anyone hit it, but there is something very interesting that unless you see it, it never dawned on me before, but we had some periods of time where Ed was asleep and I didn't have much to do, so I fooled around with what things do in zero g and I almost had a perfect conservation of energy until you release an object and push it off in a certain direction, it continued to ricochet around the spacecraft until it catches onto a lever or it gets wedged in something, but it doesn't seem like when you drop a ball on the ground it goes boom, boom, boom, boom, and finally stops, it is kind of like that. It keeps going - - - If you take something and spin it, it will just stay there and spin. I took one of the food bags we had which were about this long and about that wide and very thin and I would just spin it like that and it would just stay there and spin. With no decrease in - essentially no decrease in flotation rate. Another indication I observed, I had a piece of metal that was screwed onto the instrumentation panel that had a round disc with a loop in it and then it had a chain link dewitt and then there was another chain link dewitt, and that

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