John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
You could dUlllp OUZD or something.
Conrad
Yes, I ... .
Cooper
But the neoprene things are hard to see· through,
you could actually push them up to the control
knob to read what you got on there.
Conrad
Let' s face it Gordo, once we got those controls
set, we never moved them.
Cooper
Yes, that ' s right,
Once you set t hem you very
seldom ever set them from there on.
Sc,, I guess it
really isn' t too bad. It's kind of a :Mickey Mouse
thing..,, -..net iit works­, I guess.
Conrad
Those light weight head sets, Those PlEll'ltronic
head sets that we had, I don't think 8J'tybody can
argue about the voice quality and they are really
comfortable up there.
Cooper
Yes, and they were really good reception , too.
Conrad
Just pull a plug out of my ear and l et it hang
and turn the sleep switch on when I W8J'tted to sleep.
Never took the think off my head in 7 or 8 days I
don ' t believe. I'd sometimes take it off and hook
it under here for sleeping, but after E1 'While I
just got so used to having it on my head I just
unpull the ear plug and let it hang ancl turn the
sleep switch, and the sleep switch worted great ...•