Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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the flight, down in the vicinity of my right foot in the
center pedestal lower area there, around the cabin heat
exchanger, we got a lot of condensation. It was very wet
on the walls a.nd the blotter paper was sopping wet, a radius
of about 12 inches on the lower right pedestal, on my side.
I do not know how it was on your side.
Lovell
It started getting wet on my side, the inboard.
Borman
Yes, inboard side. That is the only place in the spacecraft
that I noticed any condensation.
As far as I know the evap­
orator only operated during launch and the first orbit. We
also had one other day when we woke up and were tumbling
quite badly and the wall temperatures were 16 degrees to 20
degrees lower th.an we ever recorded tb1;!m before. I suspect
that the evaporator might have worked that night.
We men­
tioned this to the ground and••.let's see, I have some notes
on that.
Lovell
It probably got filled up from the moisture going into the
system.
Borman
This was noted in the data for the cabin temperature surveys
also. I don't remember exactly what day it was, where we
noticed this big change in temperature.
Lovell
It was &bout 5 or 6 days after the mission started, wasn't
it?