Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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place again, so that made me think, well, you know
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they aren't going to strike the same place twice
so maybe it wasn't a micrometeorite after all. I
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really don ' t know what it was, but I think it's
worth a look at the hatch. It could have just been
that metal was cooling down or expandin~· or some­
thing, you know
They were right directly overhead on thE! right
hatch.
Yes. It really sounded like someone fired a pellet
or a B- B, or a . 22 off of a piece of me·;al .
We decided we wouldn't put this out ove:c the radio
or we would get everybody all shattered .
Okay,
well essentially that day 2 - that whole page from
2 hours to 4 hours - went right on flight plan
schedule.
We did the Vision Test there and we
called down the scores from both that one and the
day before .
Now we were on this split purge cycle .
Yes , now here is where they started making a
mistake. Somebody didn 't realize that I could not
purge the fuel cells from my side.
I can ' t get
to those switches, and I had to wake Pete up
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