Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Conrad
Now, you see.
Here ' s something that I've never heard
from the other guys .
Cooper
Now there' s another thing.
See, we never had a simulator
to show us .
Never once did we have any darn thing to
show us what out the window should look like.
Conrad
And when the Platform is alined and you' re zero- zero- zero,
boy, oh boy! That' s a , just -­ It's a very peculiar looking
situation and it' s not what I expected to see at all .
Cooper
No , it isn' t me either.
Conrad
And I ' ve never heard either Gus of John or Jim and Ed say
"Put a little gouge out" Now I ' ve got a gouge tha t I
can draw for you where I 'm sure that I can put the Plat­
form in roll and pitch within a degree in roll and pitch
of where it should be out the window on the horizon and
it ' s by using the corner of the window and the RCS
thrusters on the front : the front RCS yaw thruster in
the lower corner of the window and you can put the
Platform-- you can put the spacecraft zero- zero and roll
and pitch just, well, like that.
We didn' t know that
before we went.
Cooper
This is one of my strongest recommendations if we aren' t
going to have any kind of a visual out the window display
at least we ought to get some of the great planners to
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