Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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and the Spacecraft tended to pull down to here the redefinite streamline
down through my legs and this met al was mounted just above that, but up
against a flat panel so that t he ball ad of the panel i s here and t he metal
is mounted pin here.
And I watched that thing start into motion.
Really, I'd just touch it and it would st art loffing.
It would loff over
like this and boun e up like this.
And it went on for - one time I timed
i t for ovc
20 minutes and other times for as long as 30 minutes - and
the only thing that ever stopped it from t his continuous motion - this loffing
back and forth - was a piece of gawkroll t hat we had gl ued on underneat h
i t and every once in a while it harl an edge on it like a nickel or a dime
where it essentially came off like this and every once in a while I 'm
sure that that edge got stuck in the gawkr ol l , but it never, ever stopped
unless it got stuck in the gawkroll.
And t he same kind of thing could
have happened to the glove.
It might have been put i n motion in the
spacecraft and then just I wasn 't looking 'at it AND it could have been
rico heting around inside the spacecraft for a long time and it finally
went off.
The same th ng applies to your strap.. ...
I think wll t you ught as far as u Clowout of spacechart is concerned,
th r 's a tr m ndous ex mpl of iL in the first part of the film.
on. my h lmet tied-on ...,trap.
It ' s <le i nitely taking exactly the path of
the
low -
omcs up, goes out, und aches ov r, and i
you rec 11, the
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am out and followed exactly that path.
It arne up and out,
arched over, and went ight out the right side of the spacecraft over the
top 01' the .