Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
And i t takes t ime to do it and do a
job on it .
r ~ally good
Modes .
The only thing I can say about
that it takes an excessively long tim1;
Cage is
to Cage .
Conrad
I 'll comment on this even though we d:i. dn't get a
chance to do the rendezvous, but even in simula­
tion, it was apparent and the l i ttl e bit t hat
we did in flight caging the ~latform, getting
ready for alinements and t hings l ike -;hat, it
was very time consuming.
I think tha·; you could
find use for a fast slave cycle .
Cooper
Very much so.
Conrad
Fast Cage cycle is what I should say.
I 'll say
it's a luxury item but it sure could be helpful.
Cooper
SEF and BEF worked just like advertisEid .
SEF
for fine aline and small- end- forward, BEF for
reYersing your phase angles so that you ' re still
steering to and fine alining blunt encl forward.
Conrad
J i m and Ed made the comment that t hey never alined
BEF, that t hey always alined SEF.
We alined SEF
normally through the flight and when ,:e were ready
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