Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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night that I did.
There was one night that Gor do
slept maybe 6 or 7 hours and I let him Eleep that
whole time because we were just exhausted.
And
that was the same reciprocal thing -- he let me
sleep for 6 or 7 hours .
That was the only time in
the f l ight that we both real ly s l ept any long period
of time .
The rest of the time I don't t hink we ever
slept longer than 2 hour s at the most -- And most
of the time it was 50 minutes between s t ations.
Cooper
Well, that ' s the whole thing, that the -- on this
schedule thing there are many, many, many inter­
fer ences to sleeping and these stations just calling
in letting you know that they have TM sclid and are
standing by, interfere with you-- they wake you up.
Conrad
They shouldn' t even do that--on backside passes un­
less they got something to give you, they shouldn ' t
even call you.
Cooper
And then too, when they start handing ycu a bunch
of flight plan updates and they want yoi:.. to do this
and that and one man is trying to be-- ttey ar e try­
ing to keep one man real busy whil e the other sleeps ,
just doesn't work out.
Configuration, i,,ell , just
close your eyes .
The best configuration t o sl eep
is to turn all lights off and sl eep .
I will say one