Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Lovell
suggestion on the food is that they try to reconfigure the
meals so that Meal A is more like you would think of as a
breakfast, with :maybe SQme toast, cereal bars, and sausage
pattiess rather than fish, potato soup, and clam chowder
for breakfast. The idea of .making our day like a regular
Houston day was a very, very valuable one.
I t would also
be rather nice to have the meals correspond to the type of
meal you would eat on the Earth. We ought to have a break­
fast that is brea.kfasts a.nd so on with lunch and dinner.
One breakfast we bad shrimp, sauce, peas, and I think
potato soup. This is all right, but it would be more
desirable to have had something like cereal cubes and sau­
sage patties and things like that, so.mething you are more
used to.
The disinfectant pill crumbles. They would crumble
when we got them out.
The pieces would flbat about, and if
they got in your eye they burned because i t i s a chlorine
base pill of some sort. It happened to me once early in the
flight, and it happened to Frank towards the end of the
flight. We had to use the exhaust hoses to vacuum down the
spacecraft to get rid of these things so we wuld not get
the'!D. in our eyes.
I think tha.t we can probably go to eo.me­
thing better in the future. There is a lot of roo.m for
improvement in food. It was good. It was adequate.
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