Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965
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118 eO ►+Ft0Etrff~ Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper 8.9 Biomedical Cooper to gum up the little valve too . The little relief check valve . We ' d built up a pressure in there when you would start to UJ1inate in that thing. We would open it up and dump for 30 seconds after we went through regular dump cycle and evacuated the bag. We woul d open it up to the cockpit and let it dump 30 seconds which is what MAC recommended . Then we woul d sit there and cycle it on and off a 1d have that vacuum suck around down on that valv,~. Open and close that valve dry. We cycled it three or four times rapidly with the vacuum opening and closing it and then we shut the system down. I don ' t know whether that helped or not. We had the impression that it did. It made us feel better about the whole si·;uation. At least the thing worked the whole time . Medical Data Passes--They weren' t really too big a problem. They' re necessary. I guess they are as minimum in interfer ence as you can get thEise medical data passes . They weren' t too bad . I tal ked to Chuck Berry this morning about it. I thir.k that getting the food down into a better type i:.ystem where ~ 10E L •