Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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had a lot of, a fair amount of exercise there. Then I found I could reach everything that I needed to reach without really....myself all over the inside of the spacecraft. I managed to get all the food out which is a - in a lg is a fairly difficult task, I managed to get it out without any effort whatsoever, once I got the first one off. They were all....and they were in a box right behind me and I just - I always left one hanging out. It was big enough so it wouldn't go back into the hole and it was taped all.....and I didn't have to worry about losing it, so I just reached back and find it, and I just jerked it and pretty soon the next meal would flop out, then I would take the scissors and cut that one off, with no effort whatsoever, and I anticipated that I might have to turn around and reach back in there and could do a lot of exercises that.....

Another thing that we thought might provide exercise just didn't so you had to make it. And I wasn't that - I didn't feel like during a lot of exercises for exercise sake because we weren't getting all the sleep that was thought we should have and I just lost the desire to be doing pushups or anything like that, but I did feel that I needed more exercise than I was getting.

I think that something ought to be made clear though here, I think we are using the word exercise rather freely here, in a common lay sense, and again the experiment here as it was designed was not necessarily - a work capacity or a work heart capacity test. It is not a thing designed to provide the crew with an extensive amount of