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Exploring the Unknown 299
[CONFIDENTIAL] [DECLASSIFIED]
NASA Program Gemini Working Paper No. 5038
GT-4 FLIGHT CREW DEBRIEFING TRANSCRIPT
[No date included; declassified Mar 15, 1973 under Group 4 (declassified after
12 years)]
[only pp. 4-19 through 4-66 provided]
[4-19]
4.2 Extravehicular Activity
White
And this was the time I went after the gun.
McDivitt
Okay. At that time we reverted from station-keeping, which we were both
attempting to do, to EVA preparation, which we both had to do. That’s when Ed
went after the gun, and we started our preparation. We weren’t really far behind
at this time. All we had to do was get the gun out and get the man euvering unit.
The cameras were already out. You had the Zeiss too, didn’t you?
White
Yes. The Zeiss came out with the Hasselblad, from the same package as the movie
camera. And the storage certainly was a lot easier. What do you think?
McDivitt
That’s right.
White
Particularly getting it out of that center thing. You can just zip them out of there
with no problem at all.
McDivitt
So, at about 1:30 we started to assemble the gm. If you look at the checklist, you
see that we probably got the gun [4-20] assembled in nothing flat.
White
It’s no problem to assemble the gun.
McDivitt
We started our egress preparations essentially on time. As a matter of fact, I think
we even got started a little earlier.