Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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could do it and he coul d.
That worked real well .
Cooper
Okay.
Fuel Cell o and Fuel Cell Hydrogen Quantity Read.
2
Yes, we read them at least a million times .
Fuel Cell
•
Power Readings .
Yes , everything checked out fine on
t hose.
Bermuda 2- 1 update: fine.
Orbital Flight.
FCSD Rep
You' d better get out your flight plan on this because
t his is the original stuff I was telling you about.
Conrad
Well, that ' s all right .
This probably will go fairly....
FCSD Rep
All three, if you go the way you did it.
4.0 Orbital Flight
Cooper
Okay, on 4.0 Orbital Fli ht. Platform Alinement.
Conrad
There' s our first problem.
Cooper
There' s our first problem.
Our plat orm mode did not
work and I don ' t lmow what ' s wrong wit
but the
darn thing does not zero out
on the space­
I
craft. It allows a good
e to sit in
there and won ' t zero it out and it is ex remely sl oppy
·n pitch.
The whole thing, I think tb7:r was something
~rong with the whole thing because it d esn' t work at
I
a \ 1 like the ones in the simulator, an
the whole thing
...
plu's or minus a half a degree
a very, ver y
system
lucky to be plus or
thing really wrong with it.
I personall y think that