Apollo 9 Sleep Notes
Copyright © 2007 by the Editors of Working
on the
Moon.
Last revised 15 April 2008.
| Ground
Elapsed
Time (hh:mm:ss) |
Notes |
| 09:18:47 |
Start of Rest Period 1 |
| 18:36:12 |
Wake-up call from
Houston; no
status report until after the fourth rest period |
| 30:18:08 |
Start of Rest Period 2 |
| 39:20:24 |
Wake-up call. |
| 56:30:02 |
Start of Rest Period 3 |
| 66:54:28 |
Wake-up call. |
| 78:11:11 |
Various operational
problems are
going to shorten Rest Period 4 by about 1 1/2
hours. Houston
offers to postpone the planned rendezvous by one
orbit, the the CDR
says "I don't want to do that. We've got enough
problems. If we
have any problems with the rendezvous, we're going to
need that extra
rev to recover from it." He doesn't want to
change the schedule
of comm passes over ground stations during the
rendezvous. "We
can get this done." |
| 78:20:53 |
Start of Rest Period 4 |
| 82:44:09 |
Houston calls the crew
and has
them turn on the heaters in the hydrogen tanks for a
short time to get
the pressures back to normal |
| 85:40:24 |
Wake-up call.
CapCom: "A
real short night." Houston requests a crew
status report. |
| 86:32:05 |
Houston repeats the
request for
a crew status report. CMP reports "about 5 hours
sleep last night
... Night before last I got about 7 hours sleep,
too." CDR
reports "7 hours sleep the night before last and 5
hours last
night. Rusty (LMP) got 7 hours and 5 hours." |
| 104:13:48 |
Start of Rest Period 5 |
| 110:11:31 |
Early Wake-up because
of a low
temperature reading on the condenser exhaust on Fuel
Cell 2. CMP
spends about 6 minutes switch positions. |
| 116:30:15 |
Wake-up call.
Except for
the brief call about the fuel cell, there has been no
comm for over
twelve hours. |
| 117:17:47 |
CMP comments that they
seem to
be on "bankers' hours today, right? ... We
finally got to bed
last night at 107 hours and something, I figure we had
a nice 26-hour
day yesterday." |
| 118:09:28 |
CapCom asks for a sleep
report. 8 hours each, he is told. |
| 130:09:14 |
Start of Rest Period 6 |
| 139:55:26 |
CapCom: "Apollo 9, this
is
Houston. (Pause) Ring-a-ring-ring!
The alarm clock
has just gone off, Apollo 9." |
| 140:07:52 |
CapCom requests a sleep
report. CMP got about 7 1/2 hours; CDR, 8 hours;
LMP, 8 1/2 hours. |
| 152:15:25 |
Start of Rest Period 7 |
| 164:17:40 |
Crew sleep
report: CDR, 9
hours; CMP 9 hours; LMP 8 1/2 hours |
| 175:59:36 |
Start of Rest Period 8 |
| 185:19:49 |
Wake-up call.
CDR, 7
hours; LMP, 6 1/2 hours, CMP 6 1/2 hours |
| 200:07:44 |
Start of Rest Period 9 |
| 208:49:24 |
Wake-up call.
CDR, 7 1/2
hours; CMP, 7 1/2 hours; LMP, 6 1/2 hours |
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