Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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13. 6 Experiment Real Time Updates
Cooper
I think these worked out pretty well.
We mentioned
about needing a platform before and abcut needing
attitude control .
And our OAMS system got worse
and worse where we had no attitude cont rol t o speak
and weren't allowed to use any, I think, a great
many of these things that were put in ~ust hoping
we might drift through.
They were sort of wasted.
It was a waste of time .
They could ha.v-e saved
our time, theirs , the writing time , and. everything
involved, because trying to get some of these
experi ments while in drifting flight i~ completely
imp.ossible.
Conrad
It was really funny. It couldn' t have been better
planned to work out opposite. They'd say get a
D-4/ D-7, like the Milky Way--You'd expect to
drift through the Milky Way long enougr. to get it .
Anytime we had the gear fired up we nev-er got
anywhere near the Milky Way.
Cooper
No , we would always be pointing at the ground .
Conrad
There was one time when I tried to do it.
We were
pointed at the Milky Wa;y.
By the time I found out
that we were going to drift through it and the t en
minute warm up time for the gear passed, we were
ct> ►,FfDE~~Th*lll.
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