John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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went so far as working out the REP that the D-2
camera wanted to pull it out at real t ime but we
never put it in the window.
We riggecl a 16 mm.
Yes, we did use the GMS for all the things that
were concerned with the REP which had to do with
many stowed items, experiment items.
Cooper
Okay.
Translation and docking t raine,~s .
Let me just
say this as far as the simulations on flight
experiments.
I really think you can use a mock- up
to greater advantage and most experimnnts than you
can the GMS .
Conrad
Yes. I think you are right.
Cooper
I think you are tyi::g up the GMS in mnny cases over
things that you don ' t need to tie it up for .
Translation and docking trainer.
I would like to have
had maybe a little more time in it although I think
we got 99 per cent of what we needed t o get.
Conrad
Yes, the afternoon I spent in it was worthwhile,
running the D- 6 camera eq_uipment, takj_ng some
pictures and tracking them.
All put ·;ogerther
the GMS and the tracking thing and thn horizontal
SEDR up at MAC ended up to good familiarity with
the experiments equipment .
14.9 Spacecraft System Tests
Cooper
Okay, and at MAC we didn ' t really run1 as you say,
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