Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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REENTRY again, of course, and squib batteries.
We
were already on the RCS system, so we didn
1t have to
bring-them on, but I did bring on the other ring at
that point.
At the 256, we wanted to go platform to
ORB RATE as late as possible, so we did that after
we got TR- 256 function light -- the attitude indicator
light -- and that showed we had all our clocks were
in sync ..just perfectly.
There wasn I t a clock in the
spacecraft that wasn' t in sync .
The TR was in sync
with the event timer and they were in sync with our
back-up watches.
There was no doubt in our minds
that everything in the TRS system was working right
down the line and that we were working right down
the line.
We went to retro attitude punched the -­
Went to retro attitude, set up the whole thing for •
the reentry, and at TR-1 -­
TR- 1, SEP OAMS, SEP ELEC, SEP ADAP, four squibs on - ­
At TR- 30 seconds -­
Arm retro.
We already had that.
I've al ways made it a procedure to arm auto- retro at
TR- 5 seconds
Let's see -- SEP OAMS , SEP ELEC, SEP ADAP -- we did a
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