Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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could have laid our hands on it. We didn't
actually stow the Hasselblad till the very end.
Cooper
We stowed it about 4 hours.
Conrad
And so we were prepared by working constantly
through the night but not steadily.
We worked on
and off.
We took little rests. Then we went
back and-­
Cooper
To give a time estimate though for purposes of
planning I would say you should figure on it taking
you at least a minimum of about 4 hours to really
thoroughly restow.
And this depends 0:1 how messy
the cockpit is. If its really messy it will take
longer than that.
If the cockpit is r,~asonably
squared away and reasonably clean you ;,hould
figure on it taking about 4 hours to rHally complet­
ely thoroughly stow everything and get ready for
reentry.
Conrad
Now we were really conscious all 8 dayn­ - we would
say to one another, "Boy, it's time to stop and
stow things right now," because the si·;uation is
getting out of hand and you'd be surpr:.sed at
how fast you can build up trash in tha"; cockpit
and not realize that it is in there, ycru see.
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