Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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learn things that really helped.
Cooper
We were short on nominal time .
Conrad
I can' t say enough for the way Deke schEiduled the
things when he asked for t wo weeks.
He was right
on the button.
We could have used a couple more
days.
Cooper
Yes.
Conrad
A little more nomi nal training like that to polish
it off. If we had, I don't think Gordo woul d have
put the drogue out at 70.
And I don' t t hink I would
have left all the Squibb batter ies off.
We shouldn' t
make those kind of mistakes.
Cooper
We would have had more time to run through the nominal
procedures and get them down.
Con.rad
We 're the first ones to admit that we maie them,
because we just didn't have the f light checklist
. I
finished all the time .
We didn't run· ~hat thing that
many times.
Cooper
We ran very little orbital training othe:r than the
REP .
I think we spent a great deal of t'ime on the
rendezvous and the REP, because it was the first
priority.
Conrad
One thing that slipped by us , too, was that it took
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