John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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reworked them.
I lmow we drove thos e guys nuts down
there, but I 'll tell you, there are darn few things I ' d
change on these set of cards right now, after having
flown the flight .
They really helped us. And the
experiments book helped us and the log book worked
well, and I think we kept things fairly straight.
Cooper
In general, I think the books worked out very, very
wel l .
Conrad
Our big flight plan book worked out well, it didn't
get in the way .
Our reentry book, I t hink, could be
made smaller.
I would recommend next t i me that they
put the schematics together like Neil did in the GOH
Junior, which turned out that he had the schematics
in a b◊Ok that was 10 inches high and 2 1/ 2 inches
wide and about 1/ 2 inch thick.
Just by folding them
a certain way, and this you would put away and never
pull out.
Now, everytime we hauled out that reentry
book to do anythi ng, we had all the schematics and
everything.
We really didn' t need to haul those
around all the time.
We could have found a proper
place for them.
So, I ' m not complaining against the
reentry book and I wouldn' t take anything out of it.
By golly, we used everything in the books.
We looked
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