Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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at this rate.
Cooper
We had a short discussion on t his and decided that we ' d
better power down and forget the REP because we were
in trouble.
Cooper
So we tearful ly decided to give up the REP and power
down.
Houston agreed with us when we got in touch with
them that we had done the right thing.
That ended the
REP.
We did see it for quite a few orbits later.
Then Houston came up with the simulated Agena ren­
dezvous exercise , which they put on one of their
computers.
The three burns they gave us to do went
off very satisfactorily, the thrusters worked very
well.
They would not allow us to use anything but the
aft firing thrusters because they wanted to keep the
cryogenic oxygen in the right position in the cryo
tanks.
Apparently the burns went to their satisf ac-·
tion too.
They seemed to feel that it put us right
where we should be.
Cooper
We tried one of these burns with the Platform Mode.
It did not work satisfactorily so I used Rate Command
Conrad
which worked very well.
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We t ried to take the errors out and thats where we got
into trouble.
We had about a fo error left and right
and a fo error up and down , so Gordo fired off the fo
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