Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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and we got a cabin full of I don't know what it was.
Lovel1
You had your hood off. Why?
Borman
I took my hood off to try to find the horizon, so I made
the reentry with the hood off .
Lovell
Okay, I had my hood on, and I think when we opened up the
snorkl e; the way that works, the snorkl e draws air through
the suit compressor, and then into the suit circuit•
I had my hood on; and the flow comes out of an opening
back here in the hood, and flows down .
I got an eye
ful l of something that was an acid.
Borman
Acid, eh?
Lovell
Yes.
Really burned my eyes.
My eyes were watering when I
finP,lly got the hood off.
Borman
We11 , we accomplished all the checklists, and we had no
problems; as a matter of f act, i t went pretty smooth
in
the time between the drogue deploy and the 10.6 barostat.
6.10 10. 6 K Barostat
Borman
It was just like the si mula t or. One thi ng I did notice,
initially, when we were on the drogue, t he altimeter was
completely inaccurate.
You couldn't even read it. We
were oscillating so badly that it was jumping in thousands
of f eet per second· , oh maybe not thousands, but the needles
were going al l over the place; and I remember thinking boy,