Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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wasted time down here trying to crank up some of
these launch failures that take quite a while to
reset on the GMS .
We should have gone through them
on the DCPS and let them go at that. It was a
waste of valuable time during the last few days.
Many precious hours were wasted cranking the program
into the GMS to go through some of the failure modes
that we could have done in a tenth of the time on
the DCPS .
Due to the shortage of time we cut way
back on nominal training.
We could have had more
nominal launches, nominal insertions , nominal
insertion checklist, nominal preretro , and nominal
ret ro, etc .
Conrad
The best day we had was the day before the act ual
flight.
The day after we had scrubbed.
We ran
about 8 nominal launches.
About 4 reentries all
the way through to the end and that really put
the frosting on the cake.
Cooper
Yes , we should have had another day of t hat before
the first attempted launch.
As it turned out we
got into reasonable shape because of that one scrub
date .
We really put it to good use.
Conrad
We got a chance to go over the books some more and