"frank borman was the skipper on that one. i was the pilot. the mission was two weeks." "okay could we have your sleep report?" "roger. both of us slept six to seven hours last night, probably woke two or three times during the night." "after about three days we found out that oxygen, gaseous oxygen flowing over us were drying us out and it was very uncomfortable." "i realized that the spacecraft's integrity was pretty good so i started to unzip myself to get out of that suit and spend the rest of the two weeks in my underwear." "this is houston, flight. how long have you been up there now?" "let's see ... it's a hundred anthirty nine hours, five minutes, fourteen and a half seconds." "okay, that's a lot." "i feel like i was born up here." "we were supposed to go up after gemini 6 went up." "six was supposed to rendezvous with a robotic agena spacecraft that had docking equipment on board "after we were up there for 12 days they launched gemini 6." "ignition." "engine start." *inaudible "at cape kennedy, the american spacecraft, gemini 6 has finally succeeded in starting