Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Cooper
So they wanted to keep the platform warmed up also .
So we went for some approximately 20 hours with the
platform warm-running-up.
Conrad
In drifting flight .
Cooper
In drifting flight.
So what we did- we caged the
platform, brought it up to cage and the~ we just went
to orbit rate. Left it in orbit rate and we caged it
at a time when were just guessing pretty close to o7o1o
and then went to orbit rate.
Some 20 l'..ours later drifting
all around,- tumbling all over the sky,-·all over t he
places-
Conrad
It was amazing how close the pl atform 1,,as.
Cooper
The platform was almost right on what cur attitude was
after that many hours of orbital rate errors and drift
etc. etc. added in to there and it still was a good
relative attitude indicator I thought it was really good.
Conrad
In all three a.xis it stayed on.
I was pretty surprised.
Cooper
I really thought that was quite good.
That platform really
behaved well and it really took a l ot of abuse. Dif­
ferent times we powered it up- in drift- did all kinds
of things. You couldn't have mistreated it more if
you tried. Alining the platform very straightforward.
We alined it in BEF. First of all, we went right to