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Topic: Gemini 3: Grissom and Young in bathrobes
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Explorer1
Member Posts: 180
From: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Registered: Apr 2019
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posted 04-05-2020 07:29 AM
  
The Gemini 3 crew appears to have been the only crew greeted on an aircraft carrier in bathrobes. Did Gus Grissom and John Young take off their pressure suits inside of the capsule? If so, how? They must have opened the hatches and helped each other remove their suits if that is the case.  |
GT76
Member Posts: 28
From: River Ridge, La. USA
Registered: Jun 2015
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posted 04-05-2020 09:50 AM
They did take off their pressure suits in the spacecraft to help ease their discomfort. As written in the excellent book "Gemini Flies!" by David Shayler, taking off their suits was no easy task in the tight confines of Gemini as it drifted in the ocean and it took them another 30 minutes of struggling before they were finally clad only in their long-johns underwear. Once inside the helicopter, each man was given a regulation blue navy bathrobe for the trip back to the USS Intrepid, which made Grissom think they looked like a couple of guys who had just had a big night at a convention rather than astronauts returning from space. |
Explorer1
Member Posts: 180
From: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Registered: Apr 2019
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posted 04-06-2020 02:44 AM
Was there any reason why they took off their suits and all of the crews that followed after them did not? |
perineau
Member Posts: 244
From: FRANCE
Registered: Jul 2007
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posted 04-06-2020 08:56 AM
Amazing pic. My first reaction was, "you got to be kidding!" |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1624
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 04-06-2020 09:42 AM
My guess for later crews is primarily because they weren't in the water as long. Also because they didn't like the bathrobe look! |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1527
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 04-06-2020 12:32 PM
I imagine someone at NASA HQ or a congressman said it look "undignified" and put the kibosh on it. |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1624
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 04-06-2020 12:39 PM
With the exception of Gemini 8, crew pickup was around 30 minutes after splashdown. Maybe Lovell and Borman would've liked bathrobes! |
Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1488
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 04-06-2020 01:12 PM
I bet there was puke on the suits.
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