Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Lovell
That i s right.
:Sorman
We took an actual meal and ate i t and got the refuse.
Lovell
It was very fortunate that we did this. It caused us to l ook
for new places to s tow t hings.
:Sorman
As it was it worked out real f ine.
The cockpit was cleaner
when we reeentered than when we left.
Another i t em that
was very helpful from the cockpit cleanliness standpoint
were these by-pass hoses with the screens on them.
They
acted as vacumn cleaners on the whole flight. All the gar­
bage and refuse would get collected on them. We could clean
them off and put them in the bag and it worked great.
Lovell
We never had any l arge amounts of dandruff or anything
floating around.
Borman
The harness we took off. All you can say about the harness
i s it is a necessary evil.
Once you get it off, it is tough
to stow.
J i m, you sat on yours , didn't you?
Lovell
I stowed mine between the seat and the back of the ejection
seat because it was a dead space for me .
:Sorman
I stowed mine on the outboard si de of t he seat. We never
took the life vests off the harness.
:Sorman
Waste disposal and stowage.
We used the aft food boxes for
the defecation gloves and the urine sample bags.
Ji m filled
up his first and then I started filling up mine.
We ended
up putti ng one day of food and some other refuse in the
t