Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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entirely.
I imagine that would be an ea3y way to
package the food.
But the rehydratabl e ,)nes were
really good.
There is just no getting acound it.
They are good food.
The are nourishing and...
Conrad
Boy, I don't know what to say about the :3leep periods.
Cooper
The juices were good.
They were really Hxcellent.
We had some leaks .
We had four bag failures on
those plastic bags .
I think it was the /unction of
crumpling this bag all up again and having t o wad
i t around to fit it -tightly into a diffe:'.'ent
shape from the fold that it was in.
I think tha.t
those four bag failures could have been r eal serious.
Pete had one that was worse probably-­
Conrad
I was eating merrily on the eighth day, r:hrimp creole,
and it blew out the side , and it blew this itty bitty
dehydrated, rehydrated shrimp all over the circuit
breaker panel. It was red and i t looked like somebody
had flashed their hash all over--Ha,ha!
You can' t
clean it up in zero g.
Everytime you wipe a shrimp
off one place it would float over somewhEre else.
I was snatching shrirap out of the ai r al l over
everywhere.
I was bloody mad at the bag.
I was
about to have a fit .
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