Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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t he horizontal SEDR was - around the spacecraft ­
was really the only
flight experiments thing that we did on it up there .
Let's see, flight experiments. Briefings.
Well ,
I think some of the experiments, some were better
than others.
Some were lousy and generally the ones
that got there in politically where the lousiest,
or they didn I t bother to show up.
I think this is
something that should be very carefully controlled by
the experiments board. If the experiment is going
to be chosen the people who are the experiment ers
should be forced to come in and give you a good
briefing on these, everything ahllt them, or other­
wise they ought to be thr own off. Equipment -­
now this is along the same line -- I think that you
need desperately to observe freeze dates for the
operation and availability of the experiments.
Equipment for the experiments, if it isn't available
i t ought to be thrown off the flight. I think that
somebody somewhere along the line ought to back this.
Maybe it has to go t o the LBJ level or something, I
don ' t know.
Spacecraft systems t est . .. . I
personaliy am not very impressed with the multipl e