Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
FCSD Rep
Cooper
Conrad
My clock you talking about?
It was the one-­
My own personal Acutron I never reset and it was
some 15 seconds off at the end of the flight for the
whole 8-day period.
The Acutron on the panel, the
panel mounted Acutron, was--I changed it about 4
seconds . It ran 4 seconds f ast t he entire flight.
The Omega that I wore was some 2 minutes off the
first day and the second day was another l minute
and some odd off, at whi ch time I just quit winding
/
it .
I quit winding it about the third day and
never even bothered using it again.
The stop watch
that I was--that I took along--at the end of the
third day was still only about 2 to 3 seconds off.
It actually was quite good and I just didn' t have
occasion to use one and let i t run on down.
And
then I cranked it up for reentry and started two
minutes after retrofire.
Your clock over there ran
reasonably accuratel y
your little 8 day clock over
there, didn ' t i t?
Eight day clock ran real well. I kept it on GMT-­
the two big wrist watches I carried, I carried mainly
for the REP maneuver and didn't use them too much. I
did use them to count down to retrofire and my Glycene
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