Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Really, we sat ther e and had hours worth of discussions
in drifting flight when we'd be drifting through, you
know, and we ' d say, "Hey, doesn' t that l ook like they'r:e
about 30 degrees nose up and roll right 60 degrees?" and
then we ' d try to find those lines and match them and
see . . . there ' s an awful lot of learning there.
By
golly, if we ' d have a Platform Aline Gouge, a visual
gouge idea, we'd have picked up this trouble right off
the bat.
We real ly didn't think the platform. was
alined right, but we really didn't have anything to
tell us t hat it wasn' t .
Cooper
Now looking at it where we know now after we went to the
other scanner finally and we got proper operation knowing
what we learned during the flight it appears now like
we were--the number one scanner was trying to aline us
several degrees down over what it should.
Conrad
Yeah.
FCSD Rep
Did you ever go back to Primary after that?
Cooper
Oh. We checked it a lot of times after that and tried
it numerous times and it got worse and worse and worse
and it finally was actually driving the spacecraft down
to minus 90 degrees and still the scanner, that' s the
funny part of it, the scanner wouldn't go off until you
were about 60 degrees below the horizon.