On Sep 2, 3:11*am, Pat Flannery wrote:

Or maybe there's a way to go under the instrument panel to get to the
nose. *Where's the toilet?

I know the details of the Apollo one, but how was that problem addressed
on the longer Gemini flights?

I have no idea, and I've not seen that references in any of the Gemini
documents I have. To be honest, I admit I've never looked for it.

I had a girl friend who commented once that submarines were phallic.
I pointed out to her that anything that needs to penetrate a fluid or
a very flexible solid would be shaped that way. *That would have been
a good start had I not been thinking like an engineer and had her
parents not been listening.

Dr. Helen Caldicott made that resemblence one of the main points in her
book "Missile Envy".

Women are fascinated by the penis. This is, of course, a Very Good
Thing.


Mike