Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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in rolling flight because of the tracking involved
and the couple of times we saw the marks , you' d be
messed up trying to decide whether it was the 1, 2,
3, or 4, just from orientation.
Cooper
Well, here again, we were trying to salvage a little
bit out of drifting flight and I realize why we con­
tinued that experiment where we could and doing what
we could, but it ' s almost worthless to try and do
anything of this type if you don ' t have attitude
control systems -­
Conrad
And a platform
Cooper
And a platform
because you have got t o be able
to get powered up, you have got to be able to have
pointing information, be able to get on the thing
at an early enough date to get your angles right
and to get all set up and to be able to control the·
spacecraft so that you can take the right look angle.
When you are trying to climb all over one side of the
spacecraft, peer out the back corner of the other
window and one in one another' s lap, one peering out
of one window and one out the other and there ' s just
a mess and it doesn't do the experiment justice and
it doesn't do us justice.
If the experiments going
to be done at all, it ought to be done right and
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