Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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And the computer was in reentry and I said, "Golly,"
and I swi tched that thing to pr elaunch and he said
the loads in and validated , and I didn't get a DCS
light.
And I ' d gotten a DCS light everytime.
We never f ailed to get a DCS light.
And I was never reall y convinced even when we
checked the two cores that the l oad was r ight that
he put up there , but I guess it was.
That ' s been
checked out .
We did have the right load in the
computer.
That procedure is r eal ly poor, very, very poor.
I don ' t understand. ...
We had agreed and agreed and agreed that nobody
would send a DCS load or anything without permission
f r om you first--t i ll they cleared with you first .
And he just right out of the clear blue sky with
12 minutes-- something like that to go to retro.
27.
27 was it? Well , anyway, it ' s getting down darn
close .
Here we were all l i ned--all set up to go
and everything all squared away and what we thought
was a real proper load out of the Cape .
Had gone
into reentry and here we wer e all set.
Then here
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