Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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8,5 Communications
Cooper
Yes, we took it. It worked fine . It dries out
very rapidly; you have to refill it with water
frequently, but that is no problem.
The drink
gun fills it very readily.
I t seems to be pretty
accurate.
Stowage , of course, is always a problem
and we obtained readings at least once a day on it.
Communications .
Interphone:
operation and quality
were excellent.
UHF performance:
cJuntdown
was excellent , orbit was excellent, md recovery
was excellent, except that nobody was receiving
our transmitter in the recovery area.
However, they
were receiving it back here in Houst)n.
Twice
AIR BOSS finally shut up talking long enough, said
"some other station calling : me, say"' , and
then immediately he'd launch off int) another long
spiel and I don ' t know whether he was just drowning
us out or whether they just never got us.
At any
rate , nobody was getting us, except Houston, a
couple of times.
But the UHF perfonnance in gen­
eral throughout the whole flight was excellent.
And even AIR BOSS received when we w,~re on our
way down in the parachute. He got two steers to
us on the way down.
Voice tape reco::.-der worked
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