Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Borman
Right.
Lovell
It did complicate the pre-mission planning.
Borman
Every other experiment I thought was well presented.
The
experiments division, with Dick Moke helping out did a good
job.
I WP~ very, very satisfied in other words, with the
whole business.
13.0 MISSION CON1ROL
Borman
Describe and discuss updating on the status of spacecraft and
mission.
Borman
Once a day operation, where we r ead out certain parameters in
the spacecraft , reported th~m to the ground, and they have a
GO or NO GO for the r-ext area.
13.2 P1A and CLA _llE.dates
Borman
They were extrem~ly easy to handle.
They came up in blocks
of about 6 or 9,
No problem, since we deci ded to use a
rol ling reentry in the event of contingency landing.
Lovell
We had very little writing t o do.
Borman
Very little writing.
And I might add, based on that reentry,
i f I had to do it agai n, that is exactly what I ' d want : a
rolling reentry, i f I did not have a l oad in that computer.
Because I think it is very difficult to look out the window
and observe a horizon during a reentry.
At least it was
during ours; especially duri ng a night reentry.