Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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That was a very poor plan.
Cooper
Conrad
That wasn't thought out very well.
I think, in that
particular case, we had all the time in the world
to discuss that with the ground.
We could have
gone a couple of revs talking that one over and it
wouldn' t have made a hill of beans.
Cooper
I think the time that they chose to do it was ill
planned .
Every test that they laid on us wound up
to being a test in the middle of the night .
I don ' t
know why.
I 'm sure this wasn't planned that way,
but that is the way it turned out. Anything else on
the fuel cells , batteries, or mission control?
Conrad
No .
13.4 F'light Plan Changes
Cooper
Flight plan changes--I think here is one thing that
we want to say about mission control. I ' m well
aware that the flight plan people were kept extremely
busy having to do this tremendous amount of real
time flight planning. I think in general Flight
Planning back there did a fine job .
I'm sure there
were a lot of the people coming in and adding this
and that and changing this and changing that.
There wasn't enough thought given to the crew.
The
crew was extreme~ co,.u.romised throughout the whole
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