Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

Text

This text came with the file. It may have mistakes. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
Cooper
11 1
Okay, maps and overl ays--they were really good.
D-6 books and the data books were good and we used
the star charts-­
The onl y maps I thought weren't worth a darn were
the Apoll o landmark maps.
Yes , well you'll get to debrief on that through
Apollo in here. But our straight data books and
everything-­
Yes , they were good.
We used .all of them.
No comment on them.
We took the experiments procedure book and the ex­
periments log book just like this , and whoever had
the watch side put them in the Volkswagen bag.
We ' d
take the reentry book, which we had the PLA updates
in, and the other book, and we woul d just throw the~
down between our legs. If you wanted to l ook at the
f l ight plan you would just f lick it up, grab it, and
read the thing, and throw it back down there again.
There was enough r oom so that Pete kept them on the
side of his left l eg, and I kept them on the sid.e
of my right l eg, and we woul d just pass them back
and forth.
Okay, start charts--by gol 1y, I thought they were