Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
FCSD Rep
Conrad
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What do you mean by operational check, you were
talking about system checks; in flight?
Yes, flight plan training. . .
Operation checks.
Thruster ill umination.
Well, I don't have much
feel for that one way or another other than what I
said earlier this morning-- yes, I think I don't
know why it's as plain as the nose on my face but
I think we l eaped off the wrong assumption--that
everything was going to run right without checking
and I think that we shoul d flight plan up the first
orbit now with more checks in it. That was a very
poor assumption on this part , the more I even think
about it, because it was a perfectly likel y situation
to have some part of those three systems to be not
working right , and it would have been a simpl e matter
to have gone to the secondary scanners and el imina­
ting the problem at the very beginning that we had,
but we weren't smart enough to know that.
We are
now.