Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
Well, I ' ll tell you, a couple of days we ate a
lot more .
That third day we had a real full day.
We were really busy.
Man , we really had the appetite.
We really gobbled down the food and we ate good.
Those days we were just drifting were-­
Conrad
That makes sense to me because if I ' m wor king I eat
a lot and if I ' m not working I don ' t eat much.
Cooper
Maybe our morale was low all over.
We didn' t
consume much food .
I got hungry and Pete did , too .
I could tell when I was hungry, and we'd say okay
let' s break out the food and eat.
We really boiled
down to just about 2 meals a day when we powered
down and 3 meals a day when we were working hard.
It was only about 2 meals a day powered down that
we even wanted.
The bite si ze food tastes awful
good when you just sit around and snack on bite
size food .
I t just didn ' t taste wor t h anything up
there .
I may have finished off maybe one or possibly
two packages of it up t here just by having it
sitting around i n •that little nook or cranny.
Maybe once a day , I'd have one of t hem.
Just an
i n-between meal snack but other t han that i t was
really a waste having t hem along.
I think that if
we had all bite size food we would have quit eating
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