Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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of the flight. we had the darned OAMS thrusters
going so much-- BANt-, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG!
I was just too hot some of the time.
Yes .
Early in the flight the ammonia fumes kept me
awake .
The first time I tried to go to sleep they
kept me awake .
I don't even lmow if they kept me awake .
I really noticed it then.
I think we really need a sleep period longer than
the four-hour sl eep period. First of all we always
fooled around and never really got the sleep that
we wanted. If we had gotten a four-hour sleep
period everytime it was scheduled, we would have
been in great shape.
I think we ought to schedule
a longer one on the order of six hours .
Ed and I
talked about this earlier.
What I suggested is
that we schedule four six-hour sleep periods ,if
there aren't a lot of experiments that have to be
done together.
Where two of these sleep periods
come together, you can make that a dual awake time
so that the people could be up.
As a matter of
fac~ you could modify it in such a way that if you