Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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thought everything was going perfect.
The REP was
moving just exactly out of plane away from us and
it was moving at about the right velocity and then the
mystery came.
It just kept on going.
Cooper
Yeah.
Conrad
It kept right on going straight out, and-­
Cooper
It wasn't slowing down very much.
Conrad
And I got over here on the graph and I kept reading
the mileage and we were up to about 7 feet a second.
It was leaving us, and I realized, I began to think,
well gee, this is-
That' s when I was really convinced
that the platform wasn't alined and we must have kicked
it out some screwy way.
Then it started to drift:~
us quite fast . It finally did peak out an
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a~ he corner at some phenomenal dis ance,
mile away from us, but
drift aft quite rapid
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Cooper
Conrad
and .when we got to the nodal crossing time, it was behin~ (
us by a mile, according to the radar.
Now this is all /
on radar.
And now, mind you, it' s nighttime and it was
right there.
We could see it plain as day.
Okay, let' s see, we were at the-­
Okay, that's when we got to this next screwy thing.
was almost nine tenths of a