Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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left- hand food box in addition to the defecation gloves and
the urine sample bags.
One thing we :might note is the
horrible odor every time we opened those boxes to put some­
thing away.
Lovell
It was a necessary evil, Frank.
Borman
We were a little concerned when we opened the vents on the
boxes for the reentry that the smell might be with us for a
couple of hours, because we had to open them early before we
put our suits on.
But evidently the vent is just fine. It
is large enough that it equalized the pressure, but it is
not large enough that it lets the odors escape into the
cockpit.
e.9 Biomedical
Oral temperature measurements and thermo.meter, no p:roblem.
Although, it seems strange to .me that we have to have a TM
temperature. That thing got in the way.
Lovell
Yes, the tube got in the way and floated around, and you
almost poked your eye a couple of times with the thing.
I t
is a thin probe. It is very awkward because there are two
of them.
One is in the lightweight headset, and i f you do
not have the suit on, you have to stick it down through
here. If you have the helmet on, it is supposed to be
sticking out here, and it gets in the way. If they want
inflight te.mperature, we should take along a regular