Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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out yesterday and that the load in it was valid.
It
1 s
just that they computed the wrong place to land, in
Houston, and sent the wrong load, period.
Boy, that
was a heck of a thing to do, and I really
that darn
I
1
DCS!
m going to do just what I said I was going to
do.
I f I ever fly again, I ' m not going to fly with
that DCS circuit breaker on.
That ' s just exactly what
I was afraid was going to happen, and they couldn ' t
have done it at a worse time in the flient .
They
just absolutely couldn't have done it wcrse.
The
one thing that I had forgotten many times was putting
that computer from PRELAUNCH to REENTRY.
I had it
underlined 50 times on the check- off liflt .
I was
going to make sure that it was in REENTI'.Y .
When they
told me leaving the Cape we had a valid load and a
valid TR, I called McDivitt and I said ::
1 m putting
the computer in REENTRY.
The next thin/~ is , at
Carnarvon the guy should have seen on h:.s board that
the computer was in REENTRY and should have told me
instead of sending a load like he did.
We moved as
f ast as we could when he said he was sending loads
to put the darn thing back to PRELAUNCH .
That really
screwed us up and I
1m really mad about that.
That ' s
the only gripe I have against them, but it's a major one.