Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965
NASA-UAP-D020 · page 81 of 325
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76 Conrad Cooper Cooper Conrad Conrad Cooper Conrad ~ IDEtff Big Brother. Yes. sir. I do feel that way, I really do . Okay. Let' s see, all this real time, delayed time, st andby, that all worked fine, I thought. Yes, we had real little trouble. The coordination with the ground really in general went excellent. Yes, the only guy that had any problem ,.,as Guaymas doesn't have a command system so, poor old Guaymas was stuck when he was first to pick us up coming into the states with having to call us a.nd tell us t o turn on real -time and ack and then th,~ Rouston people would have to remind us t o turn :Lt off again but the rest of the flight the command 13ystem ran t hat telemetry and dumped t elemetry and everything else just fine as far as I was concerned. We were glad not to be bothered with it. Communications control and switches. The vjc. Man I tell you, that really worked slick, e:ccept those darn rubber guards on there. Those havH got to go. Yes. The cabin is dry enough. The onl:r reason I can see they need them on there is in case you had a catastrophic water spillage which you do very easily have. ... £QMF--1De~JIA~·•