Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Oh, that was our pre-burn stuff. At 2 days
17 hours 34 minutes and 31 seconds we had a
maneuver load.
Well , I have the whole thing here.
We powered
up the platform on day 2 at 15:50 with the plat­
form caged BEF, and at 16:15 we alined BEF with the
rate gyros on. At 16:45:00 the computer went on
and we addressed 25 90201 , and apogee adjust maneuver
was at 16:50:17.
We translated forward to zero the
IVI, so it was actually a retro burn.
I mean we
were BEF.
We were using the aft-firing thrusters.
Yes. We had a D-6 on the ship , and we didn't see
it, at 2 days 16 hours 56 minutes and 49 seconds .
We didn't see the ship. Then at 17:20 the second
day we alined the platform SEF and we sat the
computer up to address 25 00158.
We made an SEF
burn, which was a phase adjust maneuver, at 17:
34:58 .
Now, that one we did in the Platform Mode
and it didn't burn for schmaltz.
The platform didn ' t hold it . It allowed us to get
a little bit of left-right and up- down.