Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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lasted 14 days.
We could have lasted a lot longer on the
food. But that does not mean there is not room for improve­
ment.
Borman
The concept, as far as packaging and everything goes, is
good. What is lacking now is really an adequate quality
control for uniformity. If everyone of the food bags had
been as good as the good ones, there would have been no
problem.
Some of them did not have velcro on the.m, some
of them burst, and that sort of thing.
Lovell
You could get the soups out of the spout very easily, but
trying to get tuna salad and shrimp and sauce out of there
was a real job.
We should change the size of the spout
according to the type of food we have.
We noticed at the
beginning of the flight that dry solids were especially bad.
Borman
Yes.
Beef bites and bacon and egg bites are horrible and
should be deleted from the menu.
Lovell
GT-5 reported that the beef bites were crumbly.
Every
single package of beef bites that I got out was crumbs.
They would float all over the place, and you had to get out
your exhaust hose and gather them all up again and throw
the.m away. If we did not ba.ve that technique, did not have
the screens on the exhaust hoses, they would either go into
the ECS syste.m or float around.
I could see where GT-5
got an awful lot of crumbs floating around.