Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
Cooper
Cooper
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r eally good, and I think anybody that wants to get
lined up for a night retro, if they do :_t once and
aren't convinced that star charts were pretty use­
ful they're -­
Well, it gave us a great deal of confidence to go
into the star chart the last day and pic:k out the
right yaw stars, and then, as we were aJ.ining the
platform, to see those yaw stars go right through
the middle like they were supposed to.
I think the star chart was very usable snd very neat,
much smaller and neater in this fashion than it is
in this great big mechanism thing we hav-e.
I think
they're very usable in that fashion.
Stowage. Hah!
What are we supposed to say about
stowage? Boy, it's probably the most critical thing
in a long flight . It has to be kept up on an hourly
basis.
Belts and harness-- I thought they were
perfectly satisfactory, except for one set of bel ts
I wanted to get out before the flight and if I were
doing it again, I'd take my own scissors down there
and cut them out. That is the knee belt which was
put in there for pressurized ejection.
It is still
in there, and it is in the way, and I hated the darn
thing.
Mine flopped and f l apped around in there.