Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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pressure measurements a.nd--but that ' s harrl to do.
I
ought to comment on that. Because to take a blood
pressure measurement you had to pump up the thing and
leave your handsstill, and leave your arms still until
it bleerts down; well it takes a little while for it to
bleed down.
Meanwhile, Frank' s got the checklist out and
the guys out there are putting on the collar, and we're
trying to throw switches and take this and that; I ,just.
thought I might as well start doing it with my other ~a.r.n.
Ilorman
Same way with the blood pressure they requested over
Guayrnas during reentry, I make a comp1ete testimonial here;
I think once the reentry starts that everything else cets
l eft aside, and you <lon ' t nP-ss around with blood pressures,
or experiments or anything else.
From then on it ' s sort
of a case of surviving the darri thing.
I didn't want rim
messing a.round looking for a bl ood pressure; so we diiln 1 t
do it. About thA.t time we couldn' t find the horizon any­
way.
Lovell
We got called up from the MCC
Borman
But, anyway, we didn ' t do it. So it didn ' t bother us .
Lovel]
That' s the first I 'd heard of it when they cal l
up.
7.0 .LANDING AN]) RECOVERY
7.1
Impact
Borman
We were drifting backwards, blunt end forwar d, rather, as