Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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FCSD rep
Conrad
FCSD rep
Conrad
left and r ight.
We wound up witr. too much going
forward and we started to back up and suddenly we
remembered we couldn't back up so then we
decided well , we 'd j ust leave thEi errors on
the burn and burn i t the best we could
because no matter what happened He're going
to translate i nto forward and what we should
have done and we didn't think of i t at the
time--but you learn--we shouldn ' t have
burned all the forward--we should have
burned down to about a foot of what we
were supposed to have forward ancl then taken
out the left , right , up and down and go
ahead and burn the forward again.
The updates that they sent you on-­
That worked fine.
There was no problem.
We copied the numbers down, entered the
computer.
We had plenty of t i me to make
the maneuver.
We btuned r ight on the cl ock
as advertised and we seemed to have gotten
approximately i n the positi on they wanted
us to get to.
What burns did you si mulate?
Well, we did a-- I 've got them right here.
@oM~lA
Al