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.

59
...,CQt~FH)Et~TIAf •
erroneous gage.
The suit comfort is no darn good.
It ' s no worse than any other suit but there just
isn't any way of having comfort in a pressure suit.
The darn thing gives you pressure points and
bulges and gouges and cuff dam scrapes you here and
there and prevents you from being able to stretch
and scratch and have any comfort .
There isn't
any comfort in the suit, I don't give a darn who
says so, there just isn't any real comfort in a
pressure suit.
In the configuration that we flew
in,from time we got our 6-4 Go, our helmets and •• •
gloves came off, were stowed in the foot well and
they were never put on again until just before
retrofire.
We ran the whole flight in just a
basic pressure suit torso with the neck dam on and
with wrists dams on and with a light-weight head
set.
I guess the comfort was as good as you could
possibly haV@, but it still wasn' t any good and we
cussed the pressure suit plenty of times.
The
controls were good on it.
No problem there.
The
o Demand Regulator, as far as we could tell, worked
fine.
We had no real occassion to reall y stress
it much or anything.
The suit umbilical was
Both my inlet and my exhaust
always in the way.
~~9i►,•f.A~
2