Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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the suit we r&n. with it in a 45 degree position.
When both
people were m the suits, we ran it in the 45 degree posi­
tion.
Lovell
I'd like to make one comment· on the C&bin Inlet Valve, I
think a. future procedure woul d be to either open the visor
or unzip the hood prior to using the snorkel va.lve, so you
do not get this concentrated ambient flow into the suit in
a small concentrated area. Okay.
Primary o2 System
Monitoring.
Borme.n
Prima:ry o System Monitoring was no problem.
The cryogen­
2
ics bottle for ECS o2 orygen did vent•.. I think i t was
a.bout the 8th d~ it started venting.
Performance of the
cryogenics bottles have been outstanding.
The first one,
ECS o2, started venting tod~. And we were still adding
heat to the other two bottl es. Let's see, this was Sunday
morning so that woul d have been the 8th day that i t started
ventmg. The quantity measuring system worked fine.
The
flow rates were adequ&te .
I just ca;nnot emphasize enough
the desirabil ity of going without suits. The pressure a.nd
temperature remained just nominal.
We had dome plots &boa.rd
the spacecraft, and we checked them out.
We had to use the
auto heater on the ~S o2 bottle perhaps, the first two days
or so and then we were able to turn the heater off complete­