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[i]At the 18th hour after liftoff, the crew will prepare for the pilot's extravehicular activity. The ELSS chest pack (see Crew Provisions Section for details of EVA equipment) will be unstowed, along with the 25-foot umbilical tether and "Y" connectors. The command pilot will lower cabin pressure to 3.5 psi for systems check and then completely depressurize the cabin. The pilot is scheduled to open the hatch at 20:30 GET, and at sunrise at the end of the 13th revolution, the pilot will emerge from the spacecraft at 20:41 GET. On the first daylight pass over the United States, the pilot will perform the following tasks. While standing on the seat, he will mount the extravehicular camera facing forward, then retrieve the S-9 experiment on the retro adapter directly behind his seat. Then he will move to the target docking adapter and open the S-10 micrometeroid experiment mounted there. He will return to the spacecraft, change film in the camera and face it aft, then clean and sample the spacecraft windows. The pilot then moves to the rear of the adapter section to check the ESP equipment. He returns to the retro adapter and performs the D-16 power tool experiment. Prior to sunset, he moves to the rear of the adapter section to don the ESP. During the night pass (45 minutes) the pilot will stay in the adapter section, donning the extravehicular equipment. At second sunrise, the command pilot will undock the Gemini from the Agena and translate 60 feet out-of-plane to fly formation with the Agena. He will then separate the back pack from the adapter section and the pilot will move to the nose of the Gemini. The EVA pilot will then evaluate the 75-foot tether and the HHMU. He will move out from the spacecraft to the 15-foot point on the tether. The pilot will then translate below the Agena by ten feet, and the command pilot will maneuver the spacecraft to null any angular motion between the spacecraft and the EVA crewman. The EVA pilot will move successively to the 45-foot connect point and the 75-foot connect point on the tether. When he has finished HHMU maneuvers at 75 feet, the command pilot will maneuver the spacecraft to the pilot. The command pilot will follow the pilot as he translates to the Agena. The pilot will then follow the spacecraft at 50 feet as the command pilot translates from the Agena. Ingress will be in the 15th revolution while flying formation with the Agena at 250 feet. Total time of EVA will be two hours, 10 minutes. After EVA is completed, the command pilot will re-dock with the Agena.[/i]
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