Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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CONFIDENT~
Conrad
Then I have Plat form to ORB Rate, Prelaunch, and
horizon scan for some r eason.
~uestar 01 , 90
degrees left.
Cooper
We alined SEF at 13:10.
Conrad
Oh, that was these platform tests 1 and 2 that they
wanted us to do .
Cooper
That's right. We were getting ready for another
stateside pass, too.
We installed the photometer,
we did an S-8/D-13 pass at day 3, 13 hours 32
minutes at Laredo .
Conrad
Oh, let me make a comment right now on S- 8/D- 13.
We were supposed to make a measurement, a window
survey, of the window before day one and the last day.
Okay, the window scan was done on 1 day 18 hours
26 minutes 00 seconds.
That was the first window
scan.
A second window scan was never done because
the last 3 days of the flight we were in drifting
flight .
This required a 30- degree sun angle on the
window, and we never did have a control system
back until we were on the RCS system.
We weren' t
about to do any experiments on RCS fuel .
That was
right before retro .
The second window scan, the
one at the end of the flight , wasn ' t done. But