Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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Did you take it off prior to retro?
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Qooper:
Yes.
I took it off just prior to retro. I stowed it :lfl the glove compartment~
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~rren: Did you take a reading of it at any time?
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croper:
No, I didn t.
W~rren:
Di"d you place it vertically? Where did you place it?
Cooper:
I placed it vertically.
Warren.
We got from that .and also from film badger you carried on under
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clothing - - - We got an estimate of 15-20 milliroentgens. I think you would get
more in an X-ray than you had here. It was. about what expected.
Warren: Is there any particular reason that the 7th and 9th orbits were left out •
or were you just too busy?
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Cooper:
I don't remember which orbit I missed.
I believe one of them I was q~te
busy trying to get this condensate water situation straightened out and debated
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turning it on later, but decid,ed I had better not.
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Warren: It wouldn't have served much use later.
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Cooper:
That was the 5th orbit.
Warren:
The 6th and 7th were the ones missed.
Cooper:
The 6th one was where I was having the condensate difficulty.
I don't
know why I missed the other one on the 9th orbit. . We weren't schedule to run one
on the 9tht
Bill: He had one at 9 hours and 4o minutes OX} the 7th orbit; then he had another
one on t he 8th, 11:15 to ·ll:25. ' And then you go into rest period after that.
Warren:
We got that.
Bill: ~e went into rest period a:f'ter that.
Warren:
Late in the night, you turned the tape on continuous and it steyed on
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the rest of the flight.
Was there any particular reason you could not have le:f't
·the switch on?
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Cooper:
You mean the radiation?
We hadn't planned to do this because of power
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