Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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It's on the recorder,
At 06 days, 08 ·tours,
44 minutes, 40 seconds I did a 418 whic.h was
mountains .
Those were desert mountaine in East
Africa. Again I got some record time.
On the
seventh dey, 09 hundred hours, 00 minutes ,
00 seconds 419 I got the Ascension cali bration
except it was done in drifting flight over
Carnarvon if I'm not mistaken,
And that is
the end of D- 4/ D- 7.
Updating techniques and
communications procedures were exactly the same
as covered.
Equipment set up and usage was very
straightforward.
The checkoff list was good.
The cooled spectrometer checks worked out fine
over Carnarvon.
We had a go the first time.
We never did make the alinements.
The only thing
we looked at with the cooled spectrometer was
the REP.
The REP measurements were mad3 1 hour
and 50 minutes after liftoff. We had a go at
Carnarvon.
I went to PROP GAGE-EXPIDRIMENTS,
RAD- 1, Cold IR- ON, IR- ON, power-ON, transmitte::c...oN,
·recorder-OFF.
Shortly thereafter we had trouole
wi th the scanner. At 2:05 we were still having
trouble with the scanner.
We were having trouble
wi th the platform aline.
We were in th,~ process
I