Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Cooper
I do , too.
I ' l l tell you­ - the launch­ -we were
perfectly normal and right on the money-­
Conrad
Yes , we were sitting there waiting to find out what
they wanted us to do.
I mean we !mew we could
go on the batteries long enough to get to a
fairly decent re­ entry place and we wer e taking
bets wi th one another and we were kidding about
McDivitt.
There must have been real pandamoni um
at MCC .
They were burning up the lines to every­
where .
Because ther e r eally wasn' t anythi ng we
could do after that but just sort of wait.
We
re- stowed everything and we were ready to go i nto
6-4 if they wanted us to .
We wer e all prepared to
go i nt o 6-4.
We didn 1 t want t o.
Cooper
We really didn 1 t thi nk we ' d make 18-1.
Conrad
Gordo was the eternal optimist though.
I 'd say ,
"125 pounds" and he'd say, "Well , it hasn't really
fallen anymore. 11
Then it would fall about another
20 pounds and I'd say, "Well , that' s 100 pounds
now," and he'd say, "Well , that's really not much
bel ow what it was before."
I think we had a little more confidence than the
guys on the ground, I really do .
I r emember old