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[i]WHITE: ... it was really quite a sensation to see the glove floating off. I asked Jim a few minutes before about the glove, or Jim had asked me, "Hey, do you want this other glove?" About a minute later, I saw it go floating out of the hatch. McDIVITT: All I can say, Ed, was about a half hour later I was sure thankful that we had gotten rid of something. We had so much other junk that we didn't want. WHITE: I saw the glove come floating out of the right-hand hatch, and it was a perfectly clear picture of the glove as it floated out. It floated out over my right shoulder and out -- it looked like it was on a definite trajectory going somewhere. I don't know where it was going. It floated very smartly out of the spacecraft and out into space. McDIVITT: I think this had a lot to do with that outgassing. There was a definite stream -- WHITE: Yes. It was following the streamline right out of the spacecraft. McDIVITT: It went out perpendicular to the spacecraft, whichever direction that is. WHITE: Back to getting back in the spacecraft -- I had one thermal glove on the one hand, my left hand. I always wanted my right hand to be free to operate that gun and the camera ...[/i]
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