Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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this sloppiness . If these experiments are worth
taking platform time and power to do .
Conrad
We've got to say here that there was so much diffi­
culty in finding these things and getting organized
that we made onboard decisions to drop this track­
ing technique and we used only one method.
We both
looked for the target and when we found it, if we
found it, I got Gordo pointed in the right direction
and he put the reticle on it. From then on, he did
the tracking and I took the pictures .
I 'd coach
him if he was off at all by looking in the lens .
We never t ried the technique of me flyi::ig and taking
the pictures at the same time. We didn't because
the majority of pictures that they asked for in D- 6
were Questar pictures.
I would never have been
able to find it if we were off the leas·~ little bit
because the pictures that they wanted f :l.lled the
whole Questar l ens .
We found that the lioresi ght
was perfect so rather than mess things up and we
- - Things were getting worst .
To make 11ure that we
got the pictures, we dropped these different track­
ing modes and we used the same t echniquEi everytime .
Gordo tracked it in the r eticle and I coached him
if he wasn't right on fo~ he picture. I told him
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