Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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would screw it in too tight so I would get one more
picture off and then it would jam, and I would back
it out a little bit. We finally got to where it
worked pretty good.
Cooper
But this still is an equipment discrepancy that
should be-­
Conrad
Yes , and equipment discrepancy and it almost cost
us a couple of good pictures .
Especially, when
we hadn't found the ship about four times and all
of a sudden the camera was jammed....wall light
fit in there .
I might say here that this is D- 1,
D- 2, and D-6. D-1 we got, D-6 we got quite a
bit of, and D- 2 we did nothing.
What we are t alking
about is the camera equipment associated with D-1
and D- 6.
Cooper
Acquisition Techniques--They varied.
Acquisition
techniques varied depending on whether it was a
celestial or ground target.
Again we can' t
emphasize ~nough to do experiments where you have to
point to certain places to find things the only way
to do it in a professional manner is to have a plat ­
form up and use the pointing angles. It makes the
task a thousand times easier and it eliminat es all