Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Cooper
Yes.
It's major enought that , by golly , my recom­
mendations exactly like Pete ' s .
From now on my rec­
omendation is
Conrad
That did it .
Cooper
-­ that the DCS circuit breaker is left in the OFF
position.
Conrad
Yes.
The next time I ever go for the reentry and we
put a valid load in the computer, I'm going to turn
the DCS off so they can ' t screw it up again without
me turning it back on.
Coop_er
Absolutely.
Turn that circuit breaker to the OFF
position.
Conrad
That's right.
I 'd rather miss a load and go with
the earlier one.
I still can ' t believe that after
120 orbits they didn't know exactly what our param­
eters were for orbit.
I don't even know why they
needed that track over the United States the last
pass.
They 'd been tracking us all night long.
They'd been tracking us for 8 days, and they ought
to know where the heck we were.
If they want to do
it at the last minute, then let's plan on loading the
computer at Carnarvon and not load the computer at
the Cape.
This loading it at the Cape and then chang­
ing it again at Carnarvon has got to go.
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