Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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a stream into a vacuum, it is going to go right on over­
board.
I do not understand wby•••okay.
The defecation
bags were fine. And we really used them this time. The
defecation bags were really put to use in this flight. I
think we used a total of 15 of them.
Lovell
Yes.
Borman
And they were fine. I have no comments on those. It seems
to be the best solution you can have to the situation.
Lovell
For this particular type spacecraft.
Borman
For this particular type•••For the Gemini Spacecraft. I
do not know what other approach you could have to them. I
thought their marking was easily done. The finger hole I
never used that at all. One of the big assets, we might as
well put it in here, was the fact that the food that we ate
caused well formed bowels, so we did not have any loose
stools or any of that problem. I never had any occasion to
use that finger device in there at all .
Any other comments?
Lovell
No.
Borman
The water intake, the W&ter counter number.
The gun was
satisfactory. The recording that goes with it is completely
unsatisfactory.
I think the only way we should