John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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we didn't need one, the directions should be applied
at 3,042 seconds and the nominal value io ?,008
seconds and I just don't think you can ask for
better computations than that.
Okay.
I think that everything that we did on it
worked out quite well.
Catch- up mode worked well.
The .... tl:.e one
thing it did though, there was one ancmaly that
I saw on there and I almost had a heart attack at
the beginning of the flight. Remember, we got
into orbit and I don't know whether I did it or
what, but I got in the mo::le where I got the darn
IVI 's running and it wouldn't stop running, and
the worked until I switched into pre- launch nav
again a couple of times and I finally got the IVI 1s
to quit and then I was very careful about how I
did any switching after that and I don't know what
that was. I'll have to sit down and talk to the
computer people about that. It seemed to me that
what I did ....
It happened once more.
Yes, it happened one other time and we got out of
i t by going to pre-launch and letting it sit for
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