Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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ment and on that same fitting you have the little snap
"
wher e you can unsnap in the places you want to.
Oh yes, you dan do it either way.
Sure.
You cou,Yd either loosen them or--I just thi
we've
gone to such complex tailoring devices in orde
f
ovide some company with a great elaborate pro
of
providing expensive harnesses that they .. .
per­
sonally don ' t think they ' re worth a darn for what they're
·ntended for .
I don' t think you gain that much.
I
think'y~u loose a lot of it.
~
stow
that harness .
The life7 est.
Now I disagree wit everybody that ' s ever
said that those aren ' t in the way.
e were them all
the time mainly because we didn ' t hav a darn place to
I
si ore them and they're a pain in the Ii,leck t o get on and
off but they are really in the way.
The;r' re in the way
@f everything you do.
They bump int0 your arms .
Tbey' re there to cut down visibilit
on ;rour chest and
they ' re just a nuisance,
Yeah,
e didn' t have a place t
store them.
We didn ' t
store them or we'd have taken
them off and left them off.
I am here t o say t hat I