Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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swimmers there in a.bout 4 minutes, and so I put the HF
antenna back down to keep it from getting da.maged.
And we
conducted the electrical check. I musts~ that I'm gl ad
that the electrical check was simple, because it was hot in
there, and we were tired.
I was worried about this before
and I would never have been able to sit there Blld go t hrough
this complicated, long check.
Lovell
We had both pl8l'llled, that what we were going to do was take
off our suits in the spacecraft, and wear our orbital flight
suits. And I think that we probably would never have gotten
out of the suits, because we were just too hot and too beat .
:Borman
It was even hot in the spacecraft, so Jim came through with
the idea of opening the :repress valve, and this wa.s great.
We bad a.11 that oxygen and you weren't going to use it. It
blew all that cool oxygen out and we had o2 HI RATE and the
snorkel on.
So we stqed pretty cool when you get right
down to it. So it was a. good idea. I don't know if you got
the blood pressure measurements or not, did you?
6.17 Blood pressure measurement
Lovell
I took them, I don't know whether they came out or not. I
put the reprogre.mmer on in the water and started ta.king blood