Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
And it was so quiet that you could hear a guy when
he picked the book up and started turning the page.
Conrad
Yeah , I could hear in back in the adapter section
after real ly getting adapted to this thing, we
could hear the hydrogen vent, we could hear the
fuel cell hydrogen purge.
We couldn ' t hear oxygen
purge.
We could hear all thruster firing of the
attitude thruster s .
When we did our burns, we
didn ' t even have our helmets on.
Did we?
We had
our helmets off when we did the maneuver burns ,
when we did those perigee--and we could hear all
thrusters firing.
Aft firing thrusters .
We
bli pped the forward fir ing thruster s and we fired
the up-down and left and right thrusters and we
heard them all fire -- all the maneuver thrusters
and all the attitude thrusters.
And I could hear
many other noises working back in the--There was a
pump package or something squeaking back there that
squeaked for all through the test period and I was
curious to see if I was going to hear it in flight
and sure enough, it was loud and clear. It was
back there behind my head in the adapter section.
And you could hear jus t anything that was out of
the ordinary noise .
And that was what the pr oblem
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