John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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The only thing I didn't eat was the bacon and egg
bites, either.
I think if I had my druthers, I'd take bacon.
One of the biggest problems on the whole flight
was the lack of sleep.
I don't really feel that
I got more than six hours of good sleep or even
six hours of medium sleep in the whole 100 hours
we were up there.
I think if I estimated my sleep time I ·
might estimate more.
I got that one five hours,
That was good.
Fil had one real good one,and there were a couple
of them where I didn' t wiggle around for about five
hours,but never did I sleep more than two hours .
You weren't soundly asleep.
I just sat there and I rested. I had one one-hour
period right there at the end that was pretty good
sleep ,a.nd I had another good two-hour period.
That mike was one of the reasons we were getting
poor rest.
I think there were two reasons.
One was the radio
was feeding into our headsets all the time during
the first half of the flight. The second half