Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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experinent or how it was to be done .
Cooper
The only caution that we might throw in is right
here-­
Conrad
Stick to sequential times.
Cooper
Ri ght, stick to sequential time exactly so that you
have running sequential time.
You can :{eep track
of all the great number of things that they are
sending up .
They might also consider wi1at--equipment
set up and stowage problems you have wh,m they' re
sending these things up.
We had a great deal of
equipment shuffling to do there.
In general, it
worked out fairly well. All the equipm,mt worked
extremely well except 35mm camera which jammed several
times on . . . .
Conrad
Okay, now the reason it jammed was that photo event
indicator,,which st.raps on the film tran:,port adapter
cable,, was too long when t he trigger was squeezed.
That had a tendency to jam the camera mnchanism,
and I had to back it off out of the thrnad zone so
that it wasn' t tightly in there. In zeJ~o g it would
continue to back itself out.
I woul d gtit a couple
of pictures and then it wouldn' t take a picture and
I woul d have to reach down and screw it in.
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