Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

Text

This text came with the file. It may have mistakes. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

207
Because once you hit the carrier, the medics
aren•t going to let you drink for about a 3-hour
period while they run all their little diddies on
you. They don't care how thirsty you are or how
bad a situation it is .
So, I would recommend that
you just fill up with water right there.
Conrad
The most uncomfortable and the hottest we got was
in the nelicopter ride back, which was 35 minutes.
It was hotter than blazes in that helicopter.
We still had the suits on. We could have gotten
out 0£ them, but we had gotten out fairly dry to
begin with, and we just decided to-­
Cooper
We decided, as a matter of principle, we were
going to arrive on the carrier with our suits on.
Conrad
We arrived in uniform on the carrier rather than
in a bathrobe.
Cooper
Besides that, we didn't have patches on our bath­
robe.
Conrad
Right.
Cooper
Okey, thatls all I think of. One thing, after we
got out--just to cover briefly- -when the swimmers
got the flotation around the spacecraft we decided
we would open my hatch. We opened the hatch and