"Henry Spencer" wrote in message
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In article ,
Marc 182 wrote:
The crews on the J-series missions got reasonably good sleep on the
Moon,
due to the combination of the hammocks and the ability to take their
suits
off for sleep. The earlier crews did not sleep very well.

Really? Did they really sleep, or just lay there thinking, "wow, I'm on
the moon!" That would have been me. If they could sleep, I admire them
even more.

Believe me, after the second day spent outside in a spacesuit, they slept.
That's very hard work.

The effect you mention did operate, however. :-) Apollo 11 theoretically
had a sleep period between landing and moonwalk, but even aside from the
physical discomforts, that just didn't work out...

Umm, I thought the sleep period was completely cancelled and the moonwalk
moved up.

Or is that what you meant by "didn't work out..."


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