Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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and said, okay, let I s go through and re1:,lly see
what we can power down here now.
We had. gone
through to really see wha.t we could powE•r down here
now.
We had gone through a sort of second power­
down checklist when he turned the squib batteries
off -­
Conrad
Yes, you are right .
Cooper
.And we had tried several transmissions prior to
this and had gone through and rechecked t his an­
tenna switch location.
So, I'm kind 0f inclined
to think that was not the fault of the Bquib bat­
tery being off.
Conrad
I really don' t know.
Then, we powered t he whole
spacecraft down when we left it, so the1~e was no
telling what was going on.
I can•t speuk too
highly of this checkoff list. As many t imes as
we went over things in the simulator, boy, if
you don't check these items off item by item, in the
height of the excitement and the way it goes you
are going to miss something.
That is the way we
went through these checkoff lists. We Ghecked
them off by the numbers .
.Anytime back here where
I didn't do an item--where I left it op1m for some
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