Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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f l ight and everything that we just di dn ' t ever
shoot up the 16 mm film .
There just wasn ' t that
much to shoot it up on.
How long for reentry? Starting stowage for reentry?
Would you estimate?
We did it in three steps.
20 hours before reentry
we started really really thinking about the big
stuff.
You know the thing that we thought mi ght
cause us a problem.
The one place that we were
worried about was getting all the stuff in the
left hand box.
So that' s
when we got t o looking
at the tapes .
We got all the gear out that we had
to stow in ·there i ncluding the Hasselblad and sort
of got an idea how much room it was going to take
in that box and that was when we decided we had to
tape the cartridges.
Now when I say tape 18 car­
tridges, heck, that shot an hour r i ght there.
mean, you just don ' t do anything fast up there,
and so we were ready for reentry 6 or 7 hours
before reentry.
We could have come in anytime,
because we took care of our major i tems very early.
Now, this doesn' t mean that we couldn' t afford to
pull that camera gear and run experiments because
all that stuff was still in the same place and we
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