Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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up the fuel cell section and then went to normal
configuration right on the line.
Evaporator oper­
ation: for 45 minutes the
Oh, this i s not
the suit.
Yes , this ie the water evaporator . 45
minutes after launch we got yaw deviati ons from
the
evaporator and after that they stopped.
$ornewhere just slightly beyond 45 minutes they were
gone.
By the time we got around one or bi t anyway,
I didn't notice any at all .
Water management .
Well, we ran the water management in t he normal
mode all the time.
In our configurat i on the normal
mode is the drink mode.
We r an NORMAL, NORMAL,
NORMAL and OFF the whole time .
The only t i me we
went to OFF was when we went to over- board and
the FLUSH position on the uri ne heater system and
they all worked fine .
No problem at all, and the
water was excell ent water. It was ful l of air.
It had a lot of air in i t , a lot of air bubbles ,
but they didn' t seem to effect us adversely.
We
decided to go ahead and just ignore i t and drink
it and i t seemed to work out f i ne .
The wat er was
really nice and cold the whole t ime , so i t t ast ed
good.
No objectionable t aste to i t at all.
I
thought the water was excellent .
Humidity sensor .
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