Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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made my whole chest and rib area sor E• f rom the
mainfol d, the end inside the suit being gouged over,
being cantilevered over and digging in side ways
on me .
So, it 's a real pressure point. It was the
worst pressure point I had were from the suit
hoses, and I had my suit hoses deliberately longer
,,
than people said they should be so I ~ould get away
f rom this effect.
So, I di d have sla~k to
prevent
~hem from getting drug over ·but even so
they bothered me.
Finger tip lights ·,1ere good and
I kept one glove out and kept it over on a piece
velcro o,.l the side to use in the event we had any
kind of cabin light failures.
When P(~te was asleep
I frequently used my finger tip lightB on that
glove to light up some of the gages to look around
with.
Cabin pressure sealed off high on our gage.
This i s under section 2, Cabin.
Our CE.bin pressure
at launch sealed off high at about 5,5, which it
always did i n the at titude chamber in all t he runs
we made, in fact ,
in just exactly the same way.
Then i t bled down slowly t o about 4,9 and never
budged from there the whole flight .
It stayed
right there.
We never saw one flick out of it at