Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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excellent on that.
Conrad
They were great. Even the UHF worked wnll.
I
mean HF .
Cooper
Voice tape recorder.
Then we were on.
I just
covered tha t . It didn't work.
Conrad
Did you cover the . .. the exact detail s on this
DCS? How we didn ' t get the light.
The only time
we didn't get the light.
Cooper
No, I didn't cover the details on that Eixcept just
that we had gotten DCS unforecast over Carnarvon
after when we already had our load in from Houston,
and then it came on unexpectedly, not ev-en checking
to see what mode we were in here, We we•re in re­
entry mode and sent us this DCS updatin€' our TR
and updating our load, DCS load there, and just as
he said he was sending, why rapidly then we switched
out of reentry to prelaunch but never got any DCS
l i ght on either the TR or the load.
Conrad
Yes, he s ent two separate commands, and theoretical ly
the light should come on each time but I never got
the lights, so I'm highly suspicious of what hap­
pened and I've got to have an explanation why this
load....
Cooper
Which he verified to the cores and they checked out