# Apart from Richard Gordon, did anyone else sleep "in space" (during EVA)? Tags: eva, sleep - Score: 11 - Views: 297 - Answers: 1 - Answered: yes - Asked by: DarkDust (13191 rep) - Asked: 2025-10-18 - Edited: 2025-10-18 - Site: space ## Question During Gemini XI, Richard Gordon performed a stand-up EVA (that is, hatch open and he was leaning out without fully leaving the Gemini capsule). The crew had to wait until they passed to the night side to take some photos, and both Pete Conrad and Richard Gordon fell asleep. With Gordon being partially out of his space-craft you can say he was asleep in space (technically that applies to Conrad as well since he was also exposed to the vacuum). Are there other recorded instances of people sleeping during an EVA? I imagine the sometimes very long ISS spacewalk might present an opportunity, but on the other hand, as far as I know the astronauts are quite busy during those EVAs. (I'm really interested in EVAs only, even if they are stand-up. Sleeping inside some spacecraft, even the Lunar Module, is not in the scope of this question.) Audio transcript (CC = CapCom/John Young in this case, P = Pilot/Richard Gordon, C = Command Pilot/Pete C