Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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McDivitt
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McDivitt
Go ahead and eat when you just get up and the
other guy is asleep. Eat just before you go to
sleep, and don ' t eat simultaneously. Eat while
the other guy is sleeping. I think you should
spend all the time, while you are up together,
working on productive experimentation.
Yes.
I think you should keep these two six-hour
periods inviolate and then make the other ones
really flexible where you could move those sleep­
ing periods around.
If you got tired you could go on and take four
hours for sleeping. If you needed it, you would
go on and take longer. If you only needed one or
two hours, you could go ahead and take that. I
didn't feel as strongly as you about being tired.
You said I was tired.
You commented on it a number of times during the
flight and also you looked like you were tired.
Several times I missed a rest period. I think
we got fouled up a couple of times on it. I did
get tired before I took that five hour rest. I
knew I was tired.
You had that one really good sleep right around