Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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12.1
Lovell
Borman
Lovell
Borman
Lovell
12 .2
Borman
12. 0 PREMISSI0N PL.ANNING
Mission Plan (Tra,jectory)
Well , of course, it varies here, this is the last.
It changed.
We had o.ne all wired and writte.n up £'or a. 72
degree launch azi muth and this changed with the addition
of the GT-6 mission.
But I thought the people were very
f lexible, and adapt ed rapi dly to the change.
Well, ~e are talking about the mis sion plan, and they
a:re talking about the trajectory alone. There is no
doubt about it that our mission , as originally set up
for our fuel , was adequate. But,when we introduced GT-6
and the rendezvous mission, the a.mount of experimental
work which we had to do also was not reduced at all .
This compromised the results of our experimental work by
having to use the fuel for the rendezvous .
Although,
I think the rendezvous was i mportant, or that it was
higher
priority, I would like to have it put on the
record, that the results we gathered from the rest of the
flight were not as good as could be expected, because of
the fact that we just did not have the fuel.
110 pounds of gas went down the drain, too.
Yes.
Flight Plan
I thought the people did a great job there.