Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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I final ly took them and gouged them down in al ong
side the seat. I took my scissors and cr ammed them
down in there, and that is where they stayed the
whol e flight.
Conrad
Yes , I 'm not convinced they are necessary.
Cooper
That knee restraint belt was put in there so that
if you were ejecting at high al titude and you came
out in a pressuri zed condition - -
Conrad
I think the arm restraints ought to be l ooked at the
same way.
Cooper
My arm restraints stayed in the down position, I
l aunched with them down, I r eentered with them down,
and they never came out of the down position. They
could have saved a good 2 or 3 pounds of weight on
my seat by taking my arm restraints out.
I t old
them that before and they said, "Well, they wouldn't
ever be abl e to get them of f . " You know the seat
was out sitting over there and I coul d have removed
them my~el f in 5 minutes when we were in Weight and
Bal ance .
They said the paperwork involved in re­
moving them would probably take a year. So,' those
two items I f l ew with I thought were compl etel y
worthl ess .
And the lifevest­ - I don ' t know what
you are going to do better.
I really don ' t