Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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did you?
Lovell
No, I think we have enough stars on there.
I think they're
adequate.
Borman
Stowage at l aunch was a l i ttle gruesome.
When we got in we
found all the stuff stuffed on the floor over our feet.
Once we got into orbit and started going through our pre­
arranged procedure there was absolutely no problem.
We used
the food bags to put the refuge from each meal in.
We usually
stored three meals in the front until we were ready to
dispose of them, and then we would put them behind the seat.
We filled the debris guard areas we had behind the seats in
about eight days.
A.fter that we stowed the used ones in the
bags we had.
For reentry, we placed them over the seats as
we had done before. It worked fine.
Lovel l
When we first started training for the flight , there always
seemed to be a de-emphasis on exactly how much we were going
to stow.
For instance, the size of the food bags was a lot
smaller than i t turned out.
The size of the tissue we used
was a lot smaller.
I think that we ought to look at it
realistically early and make sure that we get the right
s i zes.
We were led down the path there on that first
stowage revi ew in St. Louis.
Borman
Yes.
We caught up with it on the third one
though. We
doubled the si ze of everything.