Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Lovell
There is no doubt about it. The only way you can plan
a mission of this length of time is real time flight
planning. Call up the data you want for the day, it is
a regular work day schedule. Call up what you want, and
we will put it down and we will work at it;
we will run
it off that night.
12.3 Spacecraft Changes
Borman
I do not know of one major change in the spacecraft that
we wanted that we did not get.
GPO was very cooperative
about everything. Of course, the big thing that we
wanted, that we got after a hassel, was the ability to
operate suits off. We planned this from the beginning
with our first stowage review, and we finally made it by
going the route of getting the suits that we could take
off. And I think this contributed much to the satisfactory
completion of the mission. Don't you?
I have got
personal notes here that were made during the flight.
Every other page it says suits off was the only way to
go, "I do not know how I stayed in the suit for six
days," and so on. The suit I am sure has done more to
increase the bugaboo of physical deterioration in space­
flight than a:n:y other single item. Fa.r more than zero g.