Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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little calculations right here--finally we were
off our graph up there, weren't we?
Conrad
Yes.
Well, you' ve got to realize that the graph' s
based on out of plane and this was the hypotenuse
to the thing, but even so-­
Cooper
But s t i ll you 've got to-­
Conrad
It still went away more than it should have.
Cooper
Because you cosine angles were fairly 13mall in
t here.
Conrad
It still went away more than it should have.
Cooper
I don't quite understand it.
Conrad
We 'll know what the platform--I presume they can
t ell how well we had the platform al igned.
Cooper
But there again, there 's the f irst little horse
shoe nail that throws the glitch in things.
When
that darn scanner screwed up right at the most
crucial time . It probably had been screwing up
all along, we just hadn't really caught it.
I t
really threw the glitch in right therEi at a point
when it really shouldn't have.
We ma~, have lucked
out still , and gotten.it out right on the money
and it may not have been the problem.
I don't
know, but anyway with the best we had to work with
we got it out the best we could and it looked like
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