Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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which calls for putting the computer to CATCH-UP.
I had gone through and zeroed 25 , 26, and 27, talcing
the ascent routine numbers out of it .
So that I knew
that we were getting the right readings.
I had put
the computer back in PRELAUNCH, also had this discus­
sion at that time and that ' s when I didn't blow the
cold IR doors until the REP was out .
Cooper
I've said it before, and I also said it after my
Mercury flight ; that is, "If you continually shove
things in on people very early in the flight, the
quality of it is going to be degraded."
You need the
first two or three orbits to check the systems over,
to get oriented , learn how to aline the platform, to
learn how to use the systems, to learn where things
are, to do these things before you start giving
-people complicated tasks .
You just aren ' t going to
get the quality out of them unless they're flying
exactly the same vehicle for the second or third
time and they
1re very experienced in it and they're
familiar with everything that 's onboard and there ' s
no change in equipment , no change in control system,
no change in any of these things.
Then, perhaps they
could leap right off and go right into the first
orbit and do these things.
But to put somebody into
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