Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Conrad
I've got down here the GMT of liftoff.
I wrote down
...
13 plus 59 plus 59 which they l ater change to 14
plus 00 plus 00.
I have the one A time they got
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it up to us okay, which was 10 pl us 11.
Then I
have the 2 dash 1 they gave us was 01 pl us 27 plus
16 which they later revised to 01 plus 26 plus 27,
I wrote those down.
3.3 Insertion Activities
Cooper
Okay, l et 's start on inser tion activities. SAFE
t he swi tches we did that just right for our check­
list .
In fact , we are even more convinced than ever
that a good, thorough, accurate, checklist is the only
thing to have and
Conr ad
Physically marked them off when they "·er e done.
Cooper
We followed it conscientiously.
The sequential
light t ests, we did it j ust by the teE.ts.
Stowage:;
. we already had modified our checklistE, ·and we already
had written on some of it that we would do these i f
we decided to.
For instance, the D- rlng safety pin,
we did install them at right t i me, and there was no
problem on those; they wer e nruch easi•~r under zero-g
to get in and out than we had thought and I had no