Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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around the side.
That is what i t amounts t o.
Cooper
Yes.
Conrad
We never had any t r ouble with them when w1~ put on a
new one.
The new one would l ast about a day before
i t would start getting gummy.
We t ried everything
to keep them clean.
Cooper
It would get gummy.
Conrad
...wipe on them and we left them unrolled so that
t hey would dry out.
Cooper
The rubber gets so gummy you can put the t wo together
and they just stick together. It gets all gummy and
sticky. It may be a better material is available .
Conrad
I still think i ts the urine t hat does i t .
Cooper
That ' s what I'm saying.
There may be a better material
available that the urine won ' t effect that way.
The
urine is eating into that latex--its late~ rubber ,
I suspect .
Either carry more good ones al ong or
get a better materi al to use .
That should have been
evaluated by CSD.
They should have determined that
urine does effect them and makes them go to pieces
in a hurry.
Conrad
Yes , I ' m not sure they don ' t even wash then out
occasionally.
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