Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
Humidity.
The suit seemed to run :pre·;ty d:ry.
I
wasn't conscious of any great amount of :perspiration
in it at all. A couple of times we had fairly
heavy work loads , I was aware of any :.ittle cool a:ir:'
and felt like it was kind of drying sweat.
CO2.
We got two or three indications of CO? on the PC02
gage.
One thing, when ever a station gives you a
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cali.brate well you get a big jump on that gage
but there are other times when we weren't even near
a statiun when that gage came up and began to give
an indication and one time it gave such a :positive
indication
for quite a :period of ttme that we got
a little concerned about it because it was right
when all this other stuff was going on, day 5
and we had shut down, control systems had failed
and we were destined for three days of drifting and
the PC0
started up.
So, we :pulled out one of the
2
tapes , one of the CO2 tapes we had on board and gave
a check of the suit circuit there and i t showed
that it was below 2 millimeters of a,., two milli­
meters of mercury was what it was .. . below that
anyway.
We probably assumed it was tr.is usually
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