Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Conrad
Now wait til we get the onboard tapes because the tape
recorder was working and this all is on the onboard tape;
the conversation that Gordo and I had about that.
So
we weren' t really sure it was working right but it
f
wasn't that far off that we were going in the dark-­
Cooper .
Approximately 30 seconds before we had to pitch around
or had to yaw around to eject the REP, I had to go back
to CAGE and try getting a real rapid P]atform aline in
there, SEF and PULSE and I had the neec.les zeroed and we
may not have been so far off but you don ' t know.
That
isn' t enough time to really get it alined.
In other
words.
I had about the time we did it and got there we
probably had maybe, 30 seconds to Plat::orm aline.
That' s
about all we had.
Conrad
Well, we were just hoping that if it had been pulled off
only in pitch why, you know, we ' d get it right--we'd pull
the pitch right back in again.
Cooper
But the scanner was acting up very badly by that time.
FCSD Rep
How long did you aline the Platform initially?
Cooper
Initially, we alined the platform for about 15 to 20
minutes and it seemed to aline allright although at that
time Pete and I had a discussion right then that we seemed
to be alining nose down.
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