Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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frost all over
have enough time
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it completely off and later they told us that we
could go a.head and shut it completely off.
And
we were sitting in there just shivering and shaking
and I was a lot colder than Pete.
He was cold and
I was really cold.
I was really thinking seriously
about--if we couldn' t get that thing warmed up I
was going to take my suit off and I did for a
while in fact ~ake my inlet and exhaust hoses off.
Conrad
Yes, that was his answer to the problem.
When he
got too cold, just disconnect.
Conrad
Just let it blow into the cabin.
Cooper
But, it was so cold in there that
·ndows froze
over and we were sitting there spinnin@.
Conrad
It had a rapid freeze on them.
I didn't see that
except when we were doing the high tumqling and i t
got really cold in there.
I
Cooper
You could see the frost bui ld up on the outside all
over the spacecraft.
Outside up o the nose
section around the thrusters
down there .
When you tumb
sunlight-­ when the sun-
think to warm up that particular
section.
When we damped it immediately thereafter