John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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think they ' re r eally bad where they are.
Conrad
After the big sweat was over and we got a GO and we
were relatively sure we were going to stay there for
awhile unless we, you lmow, had some other emergency
come up, I would have preferred to take off the harness
and the life jacket and stow it somewhere if we ' d
have had a place to stow it.
Cooper
Right.
Conrad
But the other thing is that maybe that' s just my per­
sonal feeling.
I ' m extremely meticulous and we kept
that spacecraft as empty as possible.
Everything had
it' s place and it stayed in it ' s place .
Cooper
And that harness and the vest--are pret t y big, bulky
items -
Conrad
And I wasn' t going to have it rattling around down there
on the floor, loose.
Cooper
Okay, on the drogue pins .
By golly, I thought those
new l i ttle things on the drogue pins made them very easy
to get in and out.
There wasn' t a bit of problem wit h
those.
Conrad
I popped the drogue pins in and out on mine .
Coope~
I put mine i n or out once just to ... .
Conrad
I think Gordo put his own in and out once to see if he