Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Cooper
Okay, belts .
I couldn' t ~~ he
belts .
The harness - While we're on the harness, I
don ' t like that harness worth anything.
t hink what we need is a simple type adjustable type
harness wi th clips on the legs that you can undo
legs to get to some of the functions you have to:
uri pation and defecation and so on in the spacecy ft .
I do ' t see why we have to have a big, expensi/e, custom,
made ha~ss that you can' t readily get on
off
and this on~ you can not readily get
and if
you had one with
on it and snaps
like you do on
harness, it would
be, I think, a hundred times useful as this one .
Conrad
Let me ask you a ~uestion.
Do you really - now, do
you r eally - I agree.
Let me say this.
I agree you
should first be able to get your harness on and off,
but in zero-g I ' m not convinced that three, especially
two leg snaps type arrangement.
In other words, a
harness that would come completely loose and have
many straps that hitch to the other straps would be
really good in zero- g.
What I think we need to do is
to be able to get in and out of that harness that we
have, easier.
Like, maybe you could loosen the leg
straps on it but not have them come apart.
Now, I
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