Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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5. 1 ~ -36 Events
Cooper
Conrad
FCSD Rep
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
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5.0
RETROFIRE
TR- 36
TR-36 is not right.
There ' s no aft-f i rjng thrusters
verification.
That ' s for OAMS .
And thEre was no
TR- 22 either because that was for OAMS , nor was there
a TR- 13 or 12.
What we had was a TR- 27 clock set
over Carnarvon.
You started your event t imer at TR- 27?
Thats
I
because we changed from 122- 1 to 121-1.
We
went r ight down the pre- retro checklist before that by
the numbers, and we had what we call a ~R-36 which
was nothing more than pick up the event timer.
So
we had the pre-retro checkli st complete before
Carnarvon.
That ' s when t hey glitched us , and I
1m
going to complain about this one .
We had a valid
load in the comput er and a valid TR when we left the
States on Rev 120, and I see absolutely no reason
if those guys don ' t know what the heck our orbit is
aft er 120 of them up there, that they had to go
ahead and send a quick up- date over Carnarvon -­
Yes.
-- I f elt that screwed us.
I still want to know
what happened.