Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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twice the size it was when it came out.
I don ' t
believe there is anyway t o get around it the way
the food is packaged.
Conrad
What are you going to do? Jim a.nd .l!:d at11 everything
in the spacecraft.
You and I hardly ate anything.
If we had known that we were going to eat what we ate ,
we could have had twice the room in the Bpacecraf t .
Cooper
Yes.
Conrad
We lef t 10 packages of food there .
We m•ver
ever touched it .
Plus we filled up the Jocker
with another third of the food we didn't eat from
the packages that we opened.
Toast, apri cot cubes ,
brownie squares, fruit cakes , a.nd I don' t know
what all were stuffed all over that spacecraft.
We didn't eat any of that.
I couldn' t eat it if
I had wanted to.
I just didn' t have a:ny desire
for that stuff at all .
Cooper
I don' t know what it was about, but it just seemed
to be so dry, and chew and concentrated.
Conrad
The doctors figured we were running on ab)ut
1800 calories a day, and I don ' t feel that we were
cheating ourselves.
There is a big diffe::-ence between
our flight and Jim and Ed' s .
They went a::ter this
big extravehicular t hing, and I think tha·; it probably-­
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