Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
Oh yes.
Cooper
Spacecraft orientation.
I agree, you need a little
help on that .
It would be a help ~o find a horizon,
but you could get pitch and yaw on it md then
maybe use the stars as a yaw orientat i on.
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Syst ems Briefing
Conrad
Well , boy I can't say enough for the t;rpe we got
at McDonnell - were relatively different in nature and
the type we got down here but I can' t :,ay enough for
both of them because they are both essential. I'll
t ell you old Bob Snyder's one remark about that cryo
stuff being abl e to go through that heat exchanger
as a liq_uid and not bother anything would . . .
I
I
just can' t say enough for how that took the load off
of our minds when we were up there.
Cooper
Yes, I think the -­
Conrad
A lot of little tidbits that we had out of these,
specifically the gu:ys here at the Ca.Pe,
Cooper-
I would sar that the content that we hE\d at the
sys t ems briefing was excellent.
I would say the
number we had scheduled, I would consic.er the absolute
minimum.
I t hink that you should have at an early
date some very thorough,extensive syste·ms briefings
at a later date, closer to the flight some
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and then