Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Conrad
Cooper
Conrad,
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Yeah.
But you add one little failure in there and you've had
it.
Yeah. That' s where I made my first mistake.
We got
purged in an hour and 50 minutes and I was going by the
check off list and right there we got in this discussion
about what was happening to the platform and I missed
the most important thing on the check off l ist.
I for­
got to
• st as sim-
That' s the whole G-- d-----­
been running for the D- 4 cold IR, it' s been our biggest
constraint and a thing that I knew as well as my right
arm but there was a glitch and the glitch got us off
the scheduled activities and I missed it bigger than-
eek.
I di
ors on the cold IR and it ' s
all my fault and I accept the blame for it.
We went
through this quickie aline business and we got turned
around and Gordo had it right on the money, we wer e
right out of plane and we got the REP out 15 seconds
late. It went out at 02+07+15 and we turned around,
waited for one minute, got the radar on, locked on it
and we were whistling away from it and I was back on
the Flight Plan and happy as a clam when I suddenly