Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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FCSD REP
How about the power up?
Cooper
I think that the power up went just r :Lght straight
forward.
Conrad
Yessir, I've the checklist right here. Just like the
insertion checklist we went by the numbers and I actually
marked it off as we did it and you can see it right
there. I went through power off check off list and we
went right down the thing we had.
Our checkoff list is
wrong and we had changes in it right h,~re.
We had
Attitude Indicator with FDI, Computer :?ower-ON, Computer
to PRELADNCH, Platform- CAGE, Scanners :?RIMARY, Rate Gyros­
ON and it should read Attitude Indicator with FDI Rate
Gyros-ON, Computer in the PRELADNCH MO:)E, Computer
Power-ON Platform, Scanner etc.
Cooper
The arrangement of it was wrong.
Conrad
Yes, the arrangement was wrong.
But w,~ did it just by
the numbers right here. And it was completely straight­
forward. Interesting note on the Plat.form, we went for
many days with the platform powered do,.;n to that it
got as cold soaked as it was ever goi~~ to get and the
platform took the maximum time. Heat dxop out took
exactly 25 minutes and then it was a l :L ttle slow coming
in. On the cold starts it took 28 minutes to get the