Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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do it.
Although experiments worked ,)ut r e l a tively
we11 , we could have used a 1 i ttle mo:c:-e time on them.
Concerning mission planning.
I would avoid wiring
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experiments such as MSC-1 .
They clo·:iber up very
critical time phasing in the mission.
For instance,
arming the Bus Arm Switch at SECO added an unneces­
sary step at an extremely time-cri ti,::al time, which
is just pure lousy engineering pl anning.
That door
could have been blown by any number ,)f circuits.
It didn't have to put i t on that one.
The next thing is the laying out of t he flight plan.
It became obvious that we were crowd,3d,
So , I think
they should take a more objective l ook at these­
quential aspects of f light planning, particularly
in terms of how long it takes t o complete one ex­
periment. This business of being pitched all the
way to the nadir, going backward, th,m having to
pitch forward again to pick up t he next target , is
time consuming.
Neither the flight plan peopl e,
the crew, nor anybody el se for that rnatter picked
this up until we were flying.
Sleep cycl es,
On the long flights you have to plan
for dual s l eep cycl es. Stations shoul d monitor and
not transmit.
The crew shoul d sleep at the same
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