Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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actually.
You left it right over the circuit breaker panel,
didn't you? Did it come out during reentry?
Lovell
No.
There was no problem.
Borman
There is no water problem.
Lovell
There might have been a little air in it because we got air
in the food all the time.
I do not know how it got in
because the food packages were evacuated.
We would put the
gun in and pump it up with water, and yet there was air in
the food every time you opened it up.
There was probably
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some air in the water, but it did not bother us too much.
Borman
No.
I thought it was a minimum amount, too.
The water
tasted good. It was cool•
The gun, as we have already
commented, was very adequate.
I think it is inconceivable
that we continue to have to log drinks the way we did. I
think if people want to know how much water you drink, you
can read them off the counter on the gun, and that is it.
We went crazy logging these things by numbers and counter
numbers and everything else. It is operationally unacceptable.
Lovell
For flights that are not primarily medical all they have to
have is a counter reading once or twice a day for the systems
p~opls, They could just divide it by the number of crew and
come out very close to what the actual consumption per man
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Borman
The food, I thought , was by and large very good.
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