Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Pete's M- 1 experiment right on top of the water tank
where the water level bubble and the mea3uring gauge
is. It' s built right on over it, so you can' t see it.
Conrad
We used every combination of l ights in t:1ere that you
could think of, depending on what we we:re doing.
Sometimes we ran with Gordo--if one guy was sleeping,
the other guy would run with his red lights on dim.
And many nights, we ran with no lights at all.
We
had that much confidence in things like 1!abin pres­
surization and so forth, that we just powered down the
lights and we would go through whole night sides without
ever turning the lights on and never even looking at
the instrument panel when we were in dri::ting f light.
We would both nod or look out the window.,
Cooper
Or sleep.
Conrad
Yes, and one of the reasons we did this Has because
of this heating problem.
I had a decided fear that we
would be in real trouble if we burned ou·; any light.
We had no way of replacing them.
So, an;:r time I
could conserve elect rical lighting, by saving the
bulb, I would turn the thing off.
I didn' t want to
build up big heat loads in them.
We ran red lights,
we ran white lights, we ran the center lights only,