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There was a desirability to have a habitat engineer on future mis- 

 sions to allow the crew to contain themselves primarily with their 

 scientific work rather than with habitat functions, and an item of 

 interest is that over the period of the 60 days there was actually an 

 improvement of performance and diving efficiency rather than a de- 

 terioration, degradation which possibly could have been expected. 



"We had very little problem with the crew themselves. There was 

 sometimes some anxiety or friction expressed with the command 

 structure or the mission director above, and that may have lieen a way 

 of just letting otf some steam. 



Personal adjustment. The crew actually adapted itself to later 

 sleep-work cycles. One of the areas of relaxation seemed to be the 

 evening meal where they would get together and discuss the day's 

 activities and this performed the relief from their duties. 



Also their diving provided relief from confinement to the habitat 

 and allowed them to get outside and breathe a breath t)f what you 

 might say ''fresh air." They considered the habitat itself as a very 

 livable configuration but, however, needed a little more room to do 

 their scientific work and of course this could be applicable to space 

 flight. 



We may have to take a look at the size of the area to do their scien- 

 tific work versus the living quarters. 



One of the various aspects that they considered very important was 

 the variation of color schemes. This relieved them of the monotony of 

 one continuous color ; in other words, gave them a change such as the 

 four seasons of the year. They found this desirable. 



Here is a picture of the crew quarters. In the background you can 

 see the TV monitoring camera and right at the center of the screen 

 you can see the microphone used for monitoring conversation to gather 

 the data. 



The curtains were for privacy on the bunks and proved useful. Here 

 is the picture of the bridge. The main asj^ect that I want to bring out 

 is the varying color schemes. It did provide relief to the crew. 



XASA'S primary biomedical interest was in the hematology area 

 of blood. TTe did the same blood studies on Tektite that we have done 

 in Sealab and are doing on the Apollo program. 



Our Manned Space Craft Center in Houston was the primary center 

 involved in this with the support of the various academic institutions 

 listed here. We also had a direct interest in the data management and 

 analysis of the data gathered on Project Tektite. 



During the course of the mission over 20,000 computer punchcards 

 were punched on site. This provided in the neighborhood of 100,000 

 bits of data information. The cards were then, after being punched, 

 sent back to TTashington. and processed and are now in the storage 

 bank at the XASA computer. 



This storage bank concept gave us the ability to analyze the various 

 mission aspects such as marine science information, the behavioral 

 information with the habitat information such as what was the atmos- 

 j^here on a certain day, the water condition. 



It orave us ability to correlate various bits of information. XASA 

 fundmg, as brought out by Al O'Xeal, was a total of $400,000. Of this 

 the Office of Manned Space Flight contributed $'250,000 and the Office 



