Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
Rate of descent - - you know, I even forgot to look
at the rate of descent.
Conrad
Well, we didn' t even worry about it. When the chute
Cooper
When the main chute opened as good as i t did -­
Conrad
-­ out there, t hat we both watched the main chut e
and I saw the water coming at the corner of t he
window -­
Cooper
I didn't even think t o look at the rat e of descent .
I knew it was good.
Conrad
Yeah, we didn' t have a:ny reason to look at it.
Cooper
I forgot about t hat .
Conrad
No, we got busy doing a check there, too.
Cooper
Well, we were also having a couple of radio calls
in there and it was int errupting -­
Conrad
Yeah, radio calls , and we knew the chute was good,
and there wasn't a:ny reason to look at it .
Cooper
I ' m sure the rate of descent worked all right .
Cooper
Accelerometer
i t seemed t o wcr k, fine.
Conrad
We 'll look at it the next time.
Cooper
Yeah, okay.
1 111 make a not e.
Cooper
The accelerometer worked fine .
The switches and
circuit breaker panel s -­
Conrad
I t's still extremely easy to knock off a:ny circuit
breakers -­