Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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13.5 Systems
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they did a fine job.
I think they made a good effort
to salvage all we could ou of a poor situation. .
I think they really did a fine job.
As a result
of what we found , and we didn't know before we got
into the real time situation; we discovered that the
people compromised are the flight crew.
They
wound up cutting into sleep periods and certain
functions were performed at the wrong time for each
one of us. It could have been better planned as
for as who did what when.
Mission Control for syst ems .
I think the biggest
handle you have on systems is right on board , and
I still think so.
I think we had a good handle on
what was going on.
The things that presented a
real question were the rate of decay, the rate of
dwindling, some of these cyros , etc.
The ground
got a good handle on them and began to give us some
good informat ion on what we could expect.
Although,
I think some of them were new enough that the ground
wasn't aware of what was going to happen.
For
example, they didn't know when they would vent and
when they wouldn't, what the rate would be when
they vented, etc.
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