Astronaut Scientific Debriefings, 1962-1963

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...... a little bit, my skin was wet and it didn't stick the way it had stuck when we tried it out in the trainer and in the capsule on the pad and I finally gave up on it and just kept one eye shut. This is marginally satisfactory, I guess, but I was not well nighted after coming up to the first night. There's a redundancy here but you sure do have the right information or cases so a few of these will be repeats. Now lets start out with the conditions of dark adaptation.

Well, most of these things that we had planned to look into if we could on Astronomy sort of went by the board, and I apologize to the people at the Cape that we didn't get more (done) that we had planned to do but as I think most of you are aware, at the end of the first orbit we started having some difficulty with control system, and from then on it was pretty much systems monitoring with some looking around outside and that was it. So a lot of the things that we had planned to do and a lot of the things I had hoped to bring back just had to go down the drain, but becoming night adapted--the first time around I did get the eye patch out that we had and this was not a very satisfactory eye patch. I was going to try to use it over one eye so that I was night adapted. I was sweating a little bit, my skin was wet, it didn't stick the way it had stuck when we tried it out in the trainer and in the capsule on the pad, and I finally gave up on it and just kept one eye shut. This is marginally satisfactory I guess but I was not well night adapted coming up to the first night. What it boils down to is that my dark adaptation was just a result of the sun going down and not normal dark adaptation from being on red light and dim light, which takes some 10 to 15 minutes to get any