Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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where it will burn --
Yes , you could smell paint.
It burns the paint in the spacecraft .
You can smell paint cooking. That's the first
thing that we noticed, the first day.
I 'll tell
you what heats up. It's the reostat . Well, the
thunderstorm light th.at Gordo 1 s referring to doesn't
have a reostat. That just flat puts out heat.
It just flat puts out heat. You can burn your
glove right off your hand on th.at one.
Your under-window right and left lights -- if we
ran those at great periods of time with the light
dimmed down, th.at reostat gets so bloody hot th.at
you can smell the paint cooking again.
I felt that
that was a real bad sit uation and we have comments
on th.at --
So we kept rotating these lights on and off.
We never did burn our lights too steadily unless we
absolutely had to .
The other problem there was that
anything that generates th.at much heat is going to
have a tendency to burn out, and I 'll tell you, you
lose one of those cockpit lights, buddy, and you
are screwed.
You really are.
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