Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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was dlll."ing t ape dumps, it would go up a.nd then come b&ok
down but we lrnew this before flight though.
Comfort dq
a.nd night, with and without suits .. .There is just no com­
parison.. I have the notes that I wrote down while we were
still up there. There is no comparison between suit on and
suit off operation. The suit off is 1,000 per cent better.
I think I may have been conservative. It wa.s ma.ybe a lot
better than tha.t.
Comfort without the suits was by and
large very good.
We used the cabin fan only once in the
entire mission during one of the checks with the suit off.
This was when we had Jim's ■uit inlet hose blocked off &nd
my inl et hose operating in my side &nd the two suit outlet
hoses in my side of the spacecraft. As we already mentioned
here, Jim noticed some stagnant areas in the ap&oecra.ft, and •
we turned on the cabin fan to see if this aleviated the pro­
blem, and it did help. There was a definite circulation
with the cabin fan on. The only problem is the cabin £an
draws a considerable electrical load, and we did not have
the power to run it continually. The cabin pressure r egu­
lator worked perfectly, it never worked at all.
Lovell
That is right, never heard it, thank goodness.
:Borman
That's the pressure relief valve. Right, never hea.rd it.
It never actuated.
The cabin pressure regulator was ae