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[i]Charlie and I buckled down to work. We planned to overcome the problems that Ed had encountered the old fashioned way -- with brute strength -- because we had no other alternative.[/i]
[i]One of the first examples of how things were moving too swiftly came with my spacewalk. Ed's only jobs were to test the spacesuit, a hand-held propulsion device, and the umbilical cord... Now we leaped to an unrealistic schedule of two and a half hours of hard work for me... Good idea, but faulty assumptions...[/i]
[i]I hadn't even done anything yet and was already losing the battle. There had been no advance warning on the difficulties I was having because everything I did was new. I was already beyond the experiences of White and Leonov...[/i]
[i]...we had just not anticipated the problems astronauts would encounter if they tried to work, as well as just walk, in space... Dr. Charles Barry observed, "The difficulty of physical labor in a hard-suit environment is one of the big revelations coming out of this flight."[/i]
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