Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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off -- enough off that we could cut the cuffs off
and throw them back in the trash box.
The cardio­
vascular conditioning bottle valve was very objection­
able. It was extremely noisy. It YOke both of us
up everytime it actuated -- with a loud thud and
hisses of air-- and I don ' t care what anybody says
in a very quite room, it was very defi nitely
objectionabl e and I won't change my opinion of it
one bit ! It was too loud and my recommendation
woul d be if they can' t decrease the noise of this
valve, that it be eliminated from any flights.
Your M-1.
My M- 1, huh? Yeah, that was a crazy one.
Let me ask one question on this. You didn't say here.
Did you feel anything?
Yeah, let's go into that .
I very definitely felt
that after we finally spent many hours down her e
with Gene Tuggs and rebuilt the cuffs -- yeah, they
were doing the job that they were designed to do.
They were cutting off the venous flow and I could
feel that in flight.
Very easily in my f eet .
So I
thi nk it was working correctly. It was a shame it
ran out of poop -- gas, air.
I'm glad it did!
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