Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Cooper
And we told McDivitt -­
Conrad
We didn ' t get a DCS light.
Cooper
We told McDivitt when we left Houston that everything
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was all square and that we re going to Reentry Mode
on the computer then.
We did, and then at Carnarvon
the CAP COM, before he even gave us a warning or
asked us about anything or even checked to see what
mode our computer was in, sent an up­ date.
Very,
very poor.
Conrad
He said, "I'm sending you a new load and a new TR.
Stand by." Boy, we were all over the thing trying to
get it back to PRELAUNCH .
I never got a DCS light
on either the TR or the load.
I quizzed him and I
told him I didn't think the load went in.
He said,
11No, the load was valid. "
We r ead out a couple of
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cores and checked TR , but I don t understand why we
didn't get a DCS light .
Now I won ' t understand it
because we should have gotten two DCS lights.
Cooper
Yes.
One for TR and one for - -
Conrad
I didn't get one the first time when he sent the
TR, and I didn ' t get one when he sent the load.
We
were in the process of switching the computer to
PRELAUNCH, and I think the el ectrpns got lost in the
shuffle there.
I gather that they took the computer