John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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trying t o sleep during the day and run any kind of
night test s .
So far as the people that we had with us that run the
pl ace - - I think the place is very adequately run.
I think one person her e who certainly deserves
bouquets is the maid, Joyce, who just can ' t do
enough for keeping all the laundry done.
She keeps
the pl~ce, I think, very, very satisfactorily clean
and squared away.
Pete, do you have anyi;hing to add?
Conrad
Well , I didn ' t hear all of what you said, but I really
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t hought the crew quarters were a great save f or
us.
I agree with all the things about the noises and
everything, with all the construction going on now.
I t 's kind of hard.
I do think that there is one thing
that I ' m goi ng to have to go on record as saying we
missed in our training, and there ' s no doubt about
about it.
We were so pressed that we didn ' t have
enough time f or adequate physical training.
15. 2 Physical Training and Aircraft Flying
Cooper
There were t wo things;
we had inadequate physical
training, arid I think we were somewhat short. on air­
plane flight time .
I would have liked to have had a
f ew more days to be able -- when we were do,m here on
our last period of time -- to got out and just fly
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