Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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12.4 Mission Rules
Cooper
Conrad
12.5 Experiments
Cooper
be held to an absolute minimum.
I think that the mission rules were i n general very
heal thy.
I think the attitude of the FOD toward
mission rules was very good. It was obvious that
just as we have seen many times before, that FOD
uses the mission rul es as guidelines and certainly
wil l deviate from them to keep the f l ight going, but
keep everything as safe and as smooth as possible.
I real ly can ' t quibble with the mission rules we
wound up with at all .
I think they were very good.
The mission rules on the fuel cells were the best
things we ever had, they were written real opera­
tionall y. I would l ike to compliment the people
who wrote those rules .
Experiments is a sore point with me b<?cause I again
feel like the flight crew get trompled on all the
way down the l ine. There is no polic;r that has ever
been held to or ever backed up on adhBring to an
experiments cut-off date. Very obviously, there
were a couple of experiments thrown in on a politi­
cal basis and nothing else.
I feel that this is not
fair to the experimenters and to the flight crew,
I