Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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some indication if the tape is on.
On long flights you
can't ha.ve the tape on all the time like the short flights-­
you ha.veto conserve tape.
Cartridge change was no problem.
The controls were adequate. Data Recording? We tried to
record as much data as we could.
:Borman
We didn't indulge in a luxury many times of recording both
in the log book and on the tape. We only had 20 tapes for
a 14 day mission. If we got a good representation of it in
the log book-we didnJt put it on the tape.
Now, we find
out we probably brought back some unused tapes, too.
Lovell
We did. It was hard for a 14 day mission to adequately
budget the tape.
We would try to budget it so th.at we could
get the in:f'orm&tion on there 'Without leaving long periods of
inactivity on the tape. However, we didn't budget it well
enough, and we left about 1 or 2 tapes without any record­
ings.
:Borman
Digital Command System updates were good, no problem--every­
thing worked fine. Real-time transmitter, and delay-time
transmitter were no problem.
As a matter of fact, tb.at
whole system I thought was excellent. The only problem we
had in the area of Digital Command System or the telemetry
was th.at we lost the tape recorder and•••goofed up the de­
1,cy-ed time. The procedure that we worked up for operating