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Topic: Faith 7: Leads passed to Cooper post-flight
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ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2043
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 10-02-2015 11:24 PM
   
In photographs taken aboard USS Kearsarge following the recovery of Faith 7, Gordon Cooper is shown sitting in the spacecraft before egressing and two thick leads are being passed in to him. Can anyone tell me what these leads were for? My guess is medical monitoring, but I'd like to know for sure. Even John Stonesifer from the Landing and Recovery Division (LRD) cannot recall what purpose they served. |
LM-12
Member Posts: 3324
From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 10-03-2015 12:09 AM
From "Postflight Observations" in SP-45: The spacecraft landed in the water about 4.5 miles from the recovery ship, the USS Kearsarge, and was placed on deck approximately 40 minutes later. In order to gain medical data as early as possible, the NASA flight surgeon aboard the recovery was equipped with an 8-foot extension cord for the biomedical cable. Immediately after the hatch was opened, this cord was attached to the astronaut's biosensor plug and blood pressure fitting and connected to the spacecraft onboard recorder to record blood pressures and ECG before, during, and after egress. This system was extremely effective in deriving egress data. |
ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2043
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 10-03-2015 02:46 AM
Many thanks: that's exactly the information I needed but hadn't been able to find myself. |
Go4Launch
Member Posts: 549
From: Seminole, Fla.
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 10-03-2015 07:47 PM
This is a good example of the sort of visual curiosities we explain in the detailed photo captions in Spaceshots & Snapshots of Projects Mercury and Gemini (see p. 80), as well as in our follow-on volume on Apollo.  | |
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