Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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FCSD Rep
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
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Why don ' t we finish this sleep period? And we will
be through with systems and pick up those questions .
Start the experiments.
Okay.
Okay, sleep period.
I think the schedule needs to
be set somewhere around the normal s l eep cycle that
a person has al ready, in other words , I don ' t think
that the s l eep ought to be set for mid-morning or
mid- afternoon.
And I personally think that the
cockpit is small enough that you 're al mos t going
to have to sl eep both guys at the same time .
I concur.
I don ' t think you can be doing the ex­
?eriments with one of them-­
And have the other one asleep.
Yeah.
Pete and I both found that the times when we really
slept the best and most comfortable and really got
some good sound sleep was when we powered that thing
completely down and turned all the l ights out and
were down around the backside area of South America
and there wasn ' t anybody to cut in and be flashing
in to tell us all kind of things and they woul d
leave us al one and we just both power down and go
to sleep and get a good s l eep .
And that is the only
way you are going to do it , becaus e if one guy is
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