Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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every time he was supposed to be asleep when the
fuel cells were purged. Well, I could get to them,
but I had to crawl right over in his lap to do it,
so he was awake then.
After that I learned to wake
him up early and let him get awake before he
purged them.
Conrad
Scared the heck out of that guy at Carnarvon, too,
I ' ll bet you -- We were going to purge the fuel
cells for the first time and I was sound asleep.
Gordo said, ''Wake up, wake up, we ' ve got to purge
the fuel cells!" I reached over there and turned
on everything and all the Delta-Plights came on.
Cooper
He hadn' t put the crossover -­
Conrad
The crossover valve on.
I said, "The Delta- P
lights are on!" The guy at Carnarvon said, "Stop
purging! Stop purging!" He must have thought the
cells were going to go right then and there so
Cooper
And then Pete woke up.
Conrad
Then finally I woke up and got to thinking about
what was going on there and found out that I'd
fouled up, slightly.
Cooper
All right, let's see. We deleted on day 2, 6 hours,
and 35 minutes, we deleted that Philippines S-7 and they