Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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We ·1a.ndeij on• t~e\ ree.Trier at ' ·"­
mid- morning, carrier time, and we acconplished not
one bit of debriefing or operational work throughout
that day at all.
We went to bed that night without
ever having done one bit of our own de1iriefi ng of any
kind, whatsoever.
The entire day was npent with
the medical community.
I don't know that we lost
anything there, particularly, but I st:.ll think there
are a lot of things you could sit down and start
t aping that would be a lot fresher in ;irour mind.
Although, I think with two people on the flight , you
tend to jog one another enough that yon don ' t forget
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about things you might when one person has been on a
flight.
Now, so far a.s +,ne preflight nedical aspects,
I still have some very strenous object:.ons to it and
comments to make.
I think that T- 2 days physical -­
giving t hit extensive a physical at that period of
time i s kind of ridiculous.
I think you really drag
a guy throught the hoops there just 2 clays before his
flight and completely grind him down on a very, very
extensive physical that I don ' t agree with the medics
as being necessary.
And I don ' t agree with all the
blood- letting that was involved in thin.
I think that
al l the number of i njections and sticko and reinser­
tions of isotopic bl ood and everything was completely
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