Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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FCSD Rep
Cooper
all.
Cabin temperature ran 70 to 75 degrees and
humidity ran about 62 to 67 per cent the whol e
flight .
We have the figures somewhere here.
We
can get in here and get those out , but we have
the figures where we mn daily checkr:i; H.:. 1,~ii ,1 t;
once a day and generally two or three times a day,of
the wet and dry bulb readings.
Okay.
We have that back in the original check.
Okay.
CO2.
The cabin, I thought was just really
good. It was very seldom that you really got any
smell in the cabin at all .
We thought the cabin would
have a dark green cloud evolve out of it when they
finally opened it, but I think the cabin, to the
time we landed, was still a pretty fresh cabin.
It seemed to scrub the odors, defication odor s
would linger on for two or three or four hours
perhaps , but it even scrubbed those out.
You
couldn' t smell them at all .
CO2; we had no--any
kind of co2.
Comfort day or night.
The cabi n
ran too cold at night, particularly when we· were
drifting and had some fairly high drift rates
the cabin got quite cold and in fact even froze
up the windows.
The cabin fan we never used at
all until we turned it on just before retrofire;