Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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took my harness off in flight twice.
I took 1 em
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off once-­
Yeah, but you wouldn' t even have to step through these
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leg loops if you had - just like on an airplane harness.
You could undo that and you wouldn' t eve·'.l. have to worry
about the leg loops.
Then all you 1d have to do is just
slide out of the torso area.
Yeah.
Well» lets sees that' s what I'm saying. If you
unhook both of those leg loops and you throw the whole
thing down in the footwell and then you pull it back up
again you got a leg strap floating off ever here and
you got a- ­
Well that' s no problem. It ' s no worse i.han it is find­
ing your lap belt.
Did you ever have i;rouble getting
your lap belt back on after you took it off?
I always hitched it on the Velcro over on the side.
But you never had any trouble ~ ting t o it. I didn ' t .
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I let mine float free and I never had any trouble getting
t o them at all .
Well, I just don 1 t lmow now. I really d:i.dn' t think it
was that bad getting in and out of this harness .
My
only concern was that if- - I stayed- ­
How many times did you get i n and out of it?
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