Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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those t hree times a day wi th the excepti on of the last day
and one other day when we got only two.
I think this is a
very good idea .
I t is difficult and requir es discipline
because the last thing in your mind i s the desire to exer­
cise. You get lazy very easily.
We di d a very extens i ve
operation with t he bungee and also i sometrics three times
a day.
Borman
They were programmed 10 minutes. I think a more realistic
one would be about five .minutes , three times a day.
I did
60 pulls on t he bungee cord with both hands, 20 wi t h each
leg, and then ended up with 10 with each ar.m on the bungee
cord in addition to the few f or the crew status reports.
Lovell
I did 60 pulls on the arms and 60 on each leg and it didn't
.make any differ ence.
I could have done 20 on each leg and
would have probably been better off.
Borman
At 45 hours Jim started taking off his suit. During that
first 45 hours our noses were clogged end stuffy, our eyes
were i rritated, t he cabin was hot ; it was miserable. As
s oon as Jim started taking off his suit, the cabin even
though he was out of the suit and I was in, got better than
it was with both of us in our suits.
Lovell
I didn't real i ze it was that long. We were almost up there
two full days befor e I started taking the suit off.