Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Conrad
I don't bel ieve that Platform Mode was holding the
tolerances it was supposed to. It was drifting a
full degree, and it was supposed to hold better
than t hat .
Cooper
I t is supposed to hol d plus or minus half a degree .
Conrad
By drifting off in yaw a degree, it burned the whole
time 1 degree off in yaw in the same direction.
You see, that accounted for the sort of l arge out­
of-pl ane number; it was like 0.8 foot ier second
that we got in to the out of pl ane.
Okay, then we
had a D-4/D- 7 at 17:42:00, a 410 Band a 407 over
Carnarvon; and it was not done .
Cooper
That 's right; we didn ' t have a reticl e .
Conrad
Because the reticle pooped out .
We thought the
reticl e had burned out. It wasn' t unti l l ater on
after we were going to fix the reticle by putting
t he auxiliary light in there that Gordo found that
t here was a short in the cord when the cord was
stretched, and that the short wasn ' t i n the cord
when the cord wasn ' t stretched, and that the sight
was okay.
That reminds me of another thing.
Right af ter we got airborne I went to use the
little auxil iary l ight down here. It was in the