Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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thermometer.
We had a lot of glass in the cockpit.
I do
not see why we cannot carry some sort of a plastic thermo­
meter. It seems ridiculous to me to have to TM a temperature,
Borman
I must admit I did not even know I had a blood pressure cuff
on except when I filled it up. It did not cause any skin
problems or anything. It is probably as good a way as we
can go.
Lovell
It seemed like I pumped up nzy- cuff a lot more inflight than
I had to on the ground for the same measurement.
Sometimes
we would not get the comment that, your "cuff is full" from
the ground until after your arm was quite puffed up.
Some­
times your arm really got to be sore.
I do not know what
you can do about it.
Borman
We used the M-3 equipment not only for the medical or the
crew status passes, but we used it regularly three times a
day. It is a very valuable piece of equipment. It ca.me in
very handy and it certainly was useful for this reason.
guess there is some reason for it for medical data.
I did
not understand why we could not stow it the last day.
We
had already checked and they said, "All right, go ahead and
stow it, you do not need it." Later they said, "You have to
unstow it. We want to get one more pass on you the last
morning of the flight." After 14 days of flight I did not
understand why we needed it, but we did it. Jim left it out,
I