Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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tumbling in the other axes.
The blanket was sitting
_r ight next to it.
Cooper
The blanket went out and was sitting ri1sht by it. It
went right on out with it .
That was thi~ funny part of
it.
The blanket was between the REP and us.
Conrad
Yes.
Cooper
The blanket goes out first.
The REP ha:3 a lot more
mementum, apparently the REP had gone b;r the blanket:
Apparently it had either hit it or moved it over or
something because the blanket was betwe,m us and the
REP.
Conrad
Yes.
I don ' t know exactly what happenecl there.
Cooper
It was just a few feet outside of the REP.
The REP
went straight on out to 270, radar was working fine ,
r eading out everything just right , lock1~d on, and went
out to the point where it should have s·~arted sl owing
down.
Conrad
This is where I had a mistake in the fl:.ght plan and
didn't catch it.
The computer was in PHELAUNCH and I
was wondering why I couldn't get any digital readout.
I t took me a few seconds to catch on to that one and
I realized that I had to get the computEir into
CATCH-UP.
We had never run into this problem where
we'd gone through a complete insertion checklist