European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1965, Darmstadt, Hesse August 1965 the stars and stripes Page 3 All astronauts time booked for jobs new minutemen Conrad it John Barbour Cape a the script is written and for astronauts Gordon Cooper and Chirls Conrad every minute the next eight Days is accounted from the moment the 109foot All Titan 2 rocket blasted them on their Way to nearly every move of the two gemini 9 was the Days Are Busy and vets gave tips to spacemen ing through space at Miles per hour is an experience not shared by Many persons Only 11 americans and 11 russians to be astronauts James Mcdivitt and Edward White ii Are two of this Small band of space i they thrilled the world june 3 when White zipped about with his space walk propellant gun during their fou Day gemini 4 they were on the ground As air Force Gordon Cooper and Navy Charles Conrad prepared to Slart their scheduled record breaking eight Day can per Anil Conrad will re member hundreds of Small de passed on by Mcdivitt and Init of time we have spent a lot of Lime with Conlo says and then there lit thousands of of written we two specific recommend Lions we made for gemini 5 were a longer sleep Cycle and a Way to shut off the radio in the Helme so you could go to said As a Cooper and Conran will have sleep Ner Lods of six hours plus two hour naps during each 24hour and a sol Tel has been installed to turn Oft the Mcdivitt and both air Force lieutenant also offered advice in stowing Euh food and instruments i the tiny a faulty Hutch door prevent i the gemini 4 Crew from tossing excess equipment and garbage out into the first Surprise for Laid was on lift the Booster the ground the bin Shook All the vibrato want Gus astronaut Virgil Grissom said Takeoff was like starting off in Rolls each o them is to have six Tro Naul will use an Clastic Cord another attempt to provide ins Hie doctors will later hours of sleep each Day plus a with 60noiind pull an an cd crore work for the Hack i see How Hie heart weakens in to hour their Ealing times each performs 30 4 in an Earth Gravity a and sleeping periods arc Laid the flight plan gives these Sistru colons both Pilot command Pilot Brief vision lest flight Ian update for medical data Here in Are some of the hangs they will do inflight exercise each us times a it int much Oxer Lazy heart cannot pump Coffi none Tim but it is an Effort to make it Cully and he blood does not the heart work harder in the i circulate it lends to easy living space environment i Pool in the Lees and feet when diet of the astronauts is monitored for Calcium there Are indications that the Bones of weightlessness and the astronaut stands Cooper get carrying weight Neu mull cuffs Conrad nearly passed Oul after his first j less first measurement a pneumatic cuff flight because of this both and they innate two out of every six throughout the this is astronauts heart compar the actual sound will be taken of each show that astronauts Bones actually waste away somewhat after Long periods in x Ray Long Studli is before and after in eight Day orbit Asl Ronauld Gordon Cooper left and Charles Conrad Are shown in per per flight their spaces urls before their launching into an eight Day Orbital photo space food is costly fare Houston Many housewives can buy a weeks Supply of but for a couple of hungry Astro that barely pays for a sin Gle meal in in the space Agency spent to buy the 24 meals that astronaut Gordon Coop or and Charles Pete con Rad plan to Down during their eight Days in space aboard Gem Ini that figures out to per or per steaks caviar pheasant under Glass not a bit of the average meal in the locker of gemini 5 consists of some thing like Bacon Chick Blini in pea nut cubes and Grapefruit juice to Wash u except for the they Are in bile size form and covered with special coat to keep them from Crum to make sure the various lunches and dinners dont they Are lashed to Gether with a Nylon on Days 5 and Cooper and Conrad were scheduled to eat meal Chicken Peanut cubes and Grapefruit total 848 meal beef Apricot Date fruit cinnamon Toast and Orange Grapefruit meal pineapple fruit Mcanul cubes and Grapefruit total on Days and the menu includes meal Strawberry Cereal Brown Bacon squares and Orange Grapefruit Cal meal 2 Bacon and egg toasted bread Pine Apple cubes and Orange juice meal Aprl cot Cereal toasted break cubes and Grapefruit Tola 851 to Joorman Force awaiting splash Doivan flight will test the density of astronaut Vest Huldur effects motion balance sensors arc located in the inner fluids in the semicircular canals of the inner car give humans a sense of to the Otolith of the inner car los provide the Otolith is a chamber in Holch hair cells sense the move int of Small but in the granules Tould be flu Alim hitting e sensitive cells at random and theoretically leading to orc of the As this Doest perhaps the eyes Over Ide the system in the inner each astronaut will Don a Spe lol pair of goggles each Day lost out the related functions of be inner car and the the of Ggles arc Light proof and quipped with a Small movable be of the astronauts will by to adjust the Light line to what they perceive to be the How closely they ome will be recorded and will e a measure of How important he Roll Ltd is in a weightless visual acuity in sequence of ground targets Iii be Laid out like a glint Eye Tho Pilot will try to see shut these patterns Are Moro ban Ion macs Cooper on ils 34hour Mission two years inc saw startling detail on Earth moving City this Experiment is deigned to lest How keen the human Eye is in in other the astronauts will try Loee planned rocket launch hangs and Static firings of rockets on Earth objects the Astro nauts will have special cameras Ned will attempt to track and photograph rail Riv ships and Tea they also will lest certain Cam Era exposures and Len film in All there Are 18 most of them requiring several experiments each honors twins Italy a Ameri can astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad were pro claimed honorary citizens of tills ittle Southern Village near geminis municipal coat of arms depicts two the town Hall announced the proclamation As Hooper and Conrad were blasting off from Cape Cape thousand servicemen have taken up stations around the world to see that the gemini 5 astronauts get Home safely from their eight Day with 28 ships and 139 aircraft strategically stationed beneath the planned flight the armed forces arc set to recover the woman capsule whether Fai the Atlantic splashdown zone fir in some Remote unscheduled Landing if All goes the astronauts will be taken aboard the aircraft Carrier Lake Champlain after Landing 500 Miles South West of the chump Aln is the flagship and prime recovery ves Sel of a 10ship Fleet deployed in the target Landing area and in alternate zones stretching across the Atlantic almost to a secondary recovery Force is in the Pacific in Case a mishap should Force the gemini 5 out of orbit aircraft with Parachute Rescue men Are on Ulert status at buses girdling the the Atlantic recovery called task Force 140 and directed by rear Ben Sar is divided into task they include the was Plaht Western Atlan tic commanded by rear White aboard the Lake Champlain and deluding the destroyers John weeks and this Force has helicopter Pararas Cucman and a team of skin divers to attach the flotation Collar around the the Force will Ringo Between 400 and Miles of Cape East ant group com Mandod by Schrum and comprising the destroyer James Neosho an it will patrol from Miles East of Cape Kennedy t 100 Miles from the african coast underwater recovery group commanded by cmdr stationed Scafur of the this group has the minesweepers exultant an avenge and the Rescue Salug ship Voa says Hal billion May listen to flight Washington up the voice of America estimates that a Hal Hullon people around he world May listen to is broadcasts of the gemini 9 space the information Agency Usia said 300 million listened to voice of America broadcasts during the John Glenn space flight on and since then Transil Tison facilities have been it had no world total on listeners to the gemini 4 night last
