In Space, No One Can Hear You Sweat

Overheard on Day 4 of Gemini VII, a 1965 manned NASA spaceflight. The crew, Frank Borman II and James Lovell, Jr., spent 13 2/3 days in space for a total of 206 orbits of Earth.

Mission Control:
Do you notice in looking at him that his skin is moist?

Lovell:
I'll let him answer that.

Borman:
[silence]

Mission Control:
Have you been sweating at all, Frank?

Borman:
[silence]

Mission Control:
Gemini VII, this is Carnarvon. Did you copy?

Borman:
About sweating? I'd say, yes, I'm perspiring a little.

Mission Control:
Very well. Thank you.

(from "Packing for Mars" by Mary Roach)

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