Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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direction.
Like I got a--in drifting flight I
got 417 and 418 at 6 days 8 hours 41 minutes.
I don ' t remember what that is .
Cooper
From here on, we just-- we drifted through this
period of time and the only time we ever powered
anything up was when the drift rates got up pretty
high.
We would power up, damp the rates, and power
right back down, and hope we- - and did manage to
keep somewhat attitude so we could get occasionally
some pictures.
For instance on--we did continue
doing MSC-1 experiments which incidentally-- even in
times of minimum power when they wanted us powered
right down to our eyeballs they still left MSC- 1
on.
I don ' t know how much fuel i t takes , but it
always erks me if we had to have everything off
why could they manage to leave that one on.
Day
6 , 8 hours, 41 minutes we got D-4/D-7 417 , 418 , and
414 .
Conrad
Yes , on that one day, Day 6, when they had the HF
tests in Houston--0roadcast HF- - we had Houston on
HF till 15 hours 59 minutes 00 seconds and this
included the remoting through Ascension,and the
remoting through Ascension was beautiful .
That