Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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other suit but there just isn't any way of
having comfort in a pressure suit .
Darn thing gives you pressure points and
bulges and gouges and cuts down, scrapes
you here and there, prevents you from being
able to stretch and scratch and have any
comfort.
There isn't a;ny comfort in a suit.
I don ' t give a darn who says so.
There just
isn't a;ny real comfort in a pressure suit.
In the configuration that we flew in from
the time we got 6-4 GO, our helmets and
gloves came off--were stowed in the footwell ,
and they were never put on again until just
before retrofire .
We ran the whole flight
in just the basic _pressure suit torso
with the neck dam on and the wrist dams on
and with the light-weight headset and I guess
the comfort was as good as you could possibly
have, but it still wasn't a;ny good and we
cuffed the pressure suits plenty of times.