Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Cooper
Conrad
FCSD REP
Conrad
G0NFIDEI\ITIAL
over there to the 2000 Kand I was . . ..
One thing that took a little bit of our time
there though, Pete , was the fact that the AIR
BOSS called us twice there and we were actually
busy answering that.
We were talking on the radio and a little talking
to Houston on the radio too.
Why don't you talk a little bit more about the
2000 foot that pressurized in the cabin.
Yes, well then we went the D-ring safety cover.
We covered our D- rings but I can't put my D- ring
pin in so I didn ' t put the pin in until we were on
the water.
I can't put that pin in, in flight,
strappen in the seat.
I can't reach down there.
Gordo, can. 'Gordo can reach down and get it. I
can't do it. So, I didn't put mine in. Then I
went to cabin vent UP and inlet snorkel UP and then
left the recirc valve at 45 degrees, and of course
the repress had been on since 50,000. So had the
o HIGH RATE, or some altitude shortly thereafter.
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The cabin seemed to be coming up very slowly. It
doesn't even with repress on.
That's a, I guess,
a lot of volume in there or something, but it just
doesn' t come up fast.
So we were about a pound when
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