Title of scifi boom featuring person suffering from zero gravity nausea

I read the book sometime in the 1970's-1980's. Two people ride a surface-to-orbit rocket up to a space station or something. One person is a newbie. He promptly becomes space-sick and vomits.

The old hand grabs the newbie and commands that the newbie keeps his eyes open, or the sickness will become worse. The newbie is gripped firmly to give a sense of orientation.

The newbie gets better, but complains that while his eyes are open all there is to see is the disgusting ball of vomit floating in mid-air.

The old hand gives the newbie some sort of medication, which he says will act as "stomach cement", to prevent more vomiting.

Does this sound familiar?