John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
Learn something new everyday.
Cooper
I didn't think about that.
Conrad
1 1 11 bet baby it is.
Cooper
Well , that ' s something somebody ought to check out .
This is just a comment.
Conrad
But we never did have any reason to dim it in the
simulator. You never tried to look out the window.
Cooper
You don't have anything to look out the window at.
Conrad
Yeah.
Cooper
Okay, event timer - - We stopped at 48 minutes after
insertinn and never ran it again until we cranked
it up at 27 minutes prior to retrofire.
Conrad
Yeah, that's right. That was one of those things
they had ~s power down.
We never powered it up in
the flight.
Cooper
Apparently, it is a fairly good power consumer.
Conrad
But it worked all right.
Cooper
The IVI 1 s worked fine, other than the one comment
Pete made while ago that they were continually run­
ning there for a while. The FDI 1 s
excellent.
Range and range rate indicator worked good on the
REP, boy, really, really good. It worked very good
on the - -
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