Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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bag would hold it in. Keep it from floating and
then fasten the velcro upon the back of the
maneuver controller.
Now there was one thing that one green bag that I
had originally had the REP plan stow in it. The
REP plan was never taken out and I never took the
bag off the wall. Then, the other green bag had
the Poleroid light filter in.
I took that light
filter in and out so many times that ihe elastic on
the top of the bag broke and the bag ~ot completely
frayed from my right leg rubbing agai:n.st it. My
pressure suit actually wore that clott all through.
You can see that on that bag t hat came out of there.
So they didn' t work at all .
We kept s.11 our food
garbage and all that little sort of tl:.ings in the
silver food bags that we opened and wl'..en we filled
one we would wrap it with tape and stew it down
there until it was time for our daily housecleaning.
I might add for stowage two items that we found were
extremely important were rubber bands and tape.
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We actually ran out of tape on the eighth day pack­
ing the last of the garbage.
We used every bit of
tape that we could lay our hands on.
We took the
tape off of the bags.
ftBEN,T"'L
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