Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
Let me just add one thing.
My recommendation is
that you are going to have to be extremely careful
with the mission planning people becau:rn I saw what
happened to us.
Every f l ight is going to have a
different rendezvous.
Somebody is going to want
to start changing something, or mickey•-mousing
around.
I think it is going to wind u:;, to be a crew
responsibility and that a couple of mo,~ths before the
f light they really put the axe to them to stop.
vlhether it is the best way to do it or not, the more
you do in rendezvous, the more complicated it is
and the more time critical it is doing the maneuvers.
The computer is a complex little gadget and can really
f oul you up if you make one mistake.
'3o , training­
wise I can 1 t emphasize running the mis3ion the way
it is really going to run in real time.
We haven't
enough time to really get it down.
Cooper
Cut i t off at an early date, so you ca1 adequately
t rain on i t .
I can't conceive that you could ever
get the off-sets that we were using in some of our
r etrofire training. Plus , I don ' t th~1k we are using
the right torquing moments on our Rate Command
system.
The trainer doesn 1 t have anyw.~ere near the
brute power that the actual RCS Rate CJmmand has.