Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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flight in the way the flight plan changes were made.
This was unintentional, I'm sure.
Conrad
We had to blow the whistle on it.
Cooper
They did things like trying to keep one man busy
al l the time , just to keep him busy. It was obvious
that was exactly what was being planned .
Certain
experiments were put on one man when th,~ other man
was asleep then the other man whe he wa:, asleep
without any thought being given to who had what
or which side of the cockpit.
Conrad
I think, that we documented this \vell enough, and
I don ' t think the 4 crew emphasized it enough; but,
the people on the ground don't realize how long it
t akes to perform these other mundane taf,ks that
aren't scheduled such as:
hygiene , food., etc .
They did allow long time periods for focd, but there
were other things that they didn't allo~ the time
for such as :
garbage , cleaning, etc.
Cooper
That's r ight .
General housekeeping and cleaning
up the spacecraft.
Conrad
I think we can straighten this out with them.
Cooper
I do to, but we are talking here about flight plan
changes in mission controlling.
I don't mean this
as critical as it sounds.
I want to say I think