Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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It i s sure different than Mercury.
The food just
boil s down to the fact that we quit eating the
bite size food entirely.
We had absolutely no desire
for it after the third day.
I doubt whet·:1.er
we
touched a drop of that bite size food affor t he
third day.
We ate s t rictly the rehydrated food.
If I
were sitting down r i ght now to redo this
flight, I would make up a recommendation ::or the
food .
I would have a number of bags made up just
the size of these rehydratabl e bags .
Bagi; that
don't have to be folded, crushed, rolled, or steam
rollers driven over them.
I ' d make up these packets
of eight , ten, or f i f teen or whatever the neatest
package with a zipper or a velcro on it if:.
I ' d
put those in there and let the pilot pick out what
he wanted for a meal.
He could pick out one or two
or three or whatever he felt like he wanted for a
meal.
He could do the same with the juices. I'd
have other bags in with just juices.
We ' d have a
great many juices all stacked i n there , and they
don ' t have to be all folded and crumpled up.
I
thi nk they will probably package a lot neater this
way.
You just have two types of bags.
You'd have