Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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FCSD Rep
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
Conrad
I looked down in there and I marked ·;he t ape, you
know with my pencil , and put it back in the tape
recorder and turned it on and sure enough it
wasn' t running.
The motor burned ou·; in the tape
recorder.
Now, when I turned the tape recorder
switch ON and OFF I could see a slight rise in
the ammeter but I think what was happening was that
we were getting the amplification part of it, but
that the motor to the tape recorder was not running, tt
wasn't driving the tape.
That seemec. to be the
f ailure.
While we're here why don't you flip back a couple
of pages while you were out and see jf there is
anythi ng that you want to add.
Okay.
Yes ,. Gordo covered the h~ater operation on
the ECS.
Okay, they came on pretty early in the
flight and we kept checking to see that it was
truly working and it was.
System check covered
the fumes and we got fumes at 27 ,000 and we were
very light because we did have the ... .
Under EX:;S I covered how you loved your pressure suit
for mobility and comfort.
Yes , okay.
I won' t say anymore on that.
Finger tip lights.
Listen, now there ' s a very in­
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