Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Then the platform wasn' t on?
Was not on.
That ' s right--see you got to he able
to have an accurate means of pointing
of having yaw and-­
They said pitch up 83 degreeR, yaw 45
degrees left--out of that window.
You
don I t have any idea in the wo:dd. I
mean, we didn't even have rat1:! gyros
powered up.
You have no idea in the
world where you a.re pointing, just-­
You are wasting your time try:Lng to do
this kind of job without a platform.
What is this a shot of--what "i.s this
target?
Well, for any pointing r equiraments,
especially ones in the sky-­
Where they are going at different angles ,
see.
You have to have a platform.
Then along at day 4, 5 hours and 40
minutes, Buzz' s eX])eriment was placed
in there on a switch-­
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