Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Conrad
Cooper
Cooper
Conrad
Yes, we did that in Rate Command right on the money.
Then we had an S- 8/D-13 and we documented those
t hings; Gordo saw part of it and I did.r. 1t .
We
never did really get a good score.
ThE·n at 18: 50
again we alined the platform SEF and seit the
computer up to 25 00164 and burned thiE1 reverse
coelliptic maneuver at 19:04:18, and that was a
good burn too.
MCC had put in their Agena computer
an Agena ephemeris, and they ran a rendezvous
solution on a fake Agena. They had us make the
actual burns, and then they computed hJw close we
would have wound up.
I was told over the radio
that we got within 0.2 mile of altitude and 0. 3
mile horizontal distance from where we should have
actually been. That was well within the tolerances ,
so they were apparently fairly pleased with the
burns .
Then we had S-7 at 2 days 21 tours 33
minutes 02 seconds , and Gordo shot moet of those.
They always happened on your wat ch.
Yes.
Then we did 2 days 21 hours and 50 minutes .
We had
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Apollo Landmark south
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Th.at' s when I woke up and you had tha·~ Lake . . . I