Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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way in flight , and we did; we both went to sleep
at the same time.
And I ' m sure if we would start
losing pressurization our ears would have told us
that we were as sensitive to that as we were to
noise .
Cooper
Thi s schedule we have covered that , I think it
should be in .
Because invariably, we could get busy
doing other things and have many interfer ences and
it would wind up that we would both wind up sleeping
during the normal Eas t Coast nighttime cycle.
In­
variably, we just weren ' t sleepy at other times .
Conrad
Yeah, I think the other thing is that now in the
schedule my naptime al ways took place when we were
cleaning the spacecraft.
This was too short after
the stateside passes .
That compressed the whole
rest of the sleeping cycle.
Although we tried to
stick to it .
Gordo woul d go to sleep for his long
period which was usually 5 hours instead of 6 be­
cause we ' d slid into that time.
We always ate our
meals together and we were scheduled not to .
We
always took the vision test together.
We weren ' t ,
this way we compr essed things down.
And uh , then
I usually wound up having about 5 hours off , but
I never slept the full 5 hours .
There was just one
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