Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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naps.
I noticed Jim was napping too.
Yes.
I concur with F.d, although I don't want
to get carried overboard.
We shouldn't scrub
due to crew fatigue .
I think it is up to the crew.
If the crew is un­
comfortable they should come down.
But I don't
think he should say, "Okay, two hours and 30
minutes .
You cut this off. ", because it is an
operational procedure.
When I first got assigned to the crew I always
fel t one of the toughest things to do would be
laying back for an hour and 40 minutes or so
prior to launch.
The time we spent in the simu­
lator laying on our back, I thought to be a very
uncomfortable position.
As we went through all
the training and testing at McDonald, and again
at the Cape ,
;ny back got more callouses on it.
I got used to laying with my feet over my head.
At launch time I wasn't a bit tired from laying
on my back.
This is brought out in one of our last simulations ,
where we ran the whole four hour simulation and
we forgot to have them tilt us up to 30 degrees.
We just got used to running that way,
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