Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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I'll tell you I wouldn' t have given you a nickels
chance if we didn ' t have up systems.
We would have
had to fallen back on one of those backup jobber
doos.
That would have been pure luck.
Eut I
wouldn't have made a mistake reading it. You are
just reading the checklist.
They were extremely
complicated and long-winded.
Now I guess they
simplified this a lot in Spacecraft 6; we were up
against the wall. We had to stop somewhere; take it
and work with it or we weren't going to get it
done.
They were still in the process or ironing
out the procedures.
We did more of an evaluation,
although it was a learning process, but we were
involved in the evaluati on stage , which was not the
time for us to be doing this.