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Minutes after they reached the deck of the Lake Champlain, Astronauts Cooper and Conrad were seen, bearded and smiling, on TV screens across the nation. The images were not live TV pickups, which were not feasible due to technical difficulties. But they were the next best thing: still pictures transmitted almost instantly...
Like any round-the-world travelers, Gemini 5 Astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad took some pictures to show the folks back home. The first photos released last week made a spectacular space travelogue, exceptionally clear and well-defined. From more than 150 miles up, the astronauts were able to get detailed shots of the launch pads at Cape Kennedy, the sharp relief of mountains and deserts, and incredible sights of underwater coral reefs (see color pages). The more than 1,000 pictures that they took with four cameras* demonstrated anew the potential of space photography for scientific and military...
...Diet. On the day after splashdown, they were flown to Cape Kennedy to begin eleven days of even more intensive physical checkups and debriefings. The exams showed that Cooper and Conrad were not so fatigued as the men of the four-day Gemini 4. For one reason, the Gemini 5 astronauts were able to get six or seven hours of sleep daily after the first few crucial days. When they slept in orbit, their heartbeats dropped to the high 30s. As they maneuvered their spacecraft and performed experiments, the beats rose to the 60s and 70s, which is about normal...
...finding that mystified the doctors was the astronauts' significant weight loss. Cooper weighed in for lift-off at 152 Ibs., returned 7½ Ibs. lighter; Conrad started out at 154 Ibs., finished 8½ Ibs. lighter. The astronauts ate only 2,000 calories a day, compared with the 2,700 calories provided for them-but then, neither of them is a heavy eater. Dehydration? Though both astronauts drank six pints of liquid daily-which would seem to preclude the possibility of dehydration-doctors figured that there must be some still unknown factors in space flight that do dehydrate...
...symptoms of orthostatic hypotension-a condition that could result from weightlessness and lead to an increase in the heart rate, coupled with a sharp drop in blood pressure. Doctors have always feared that this could cause the spacemen to faint under the high G forces of reentry. But Cooper and Conrad stayed alert during both the re-entry and the many postflight tests. Every day the astronauts were strapped prone to a tilt table, then swung rapidly into a vertical position. The sudden jolt induces symptoms of orthostatic hypotension. The doctors wanted to see how long it took...