John Company

Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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cross range.
Did you have any kind of a mal function in the acceler­
ometer?
No, but Spacecraft 6 did.
I don't remember that being
a condition of the bet.
I didn ' t either.
Ground Information.
The ground gave us excellent inforl!la­
tion, as far as everything we needed to know, including
recomputing the guidance angles after retro.
The ground
did an excellent job.
Tracking data, I don ' t remember
receiving that.
When Spacecraft 6 was ent ering, they
kept telling them that they were fine, a.nrl they wer e goi.ng
right down the s l ot anti everything.
J do not remember
ever hP.aring from the ground on anything Jike that on ours,
do you? Perhaps we did and we were so engrossed in flyi ng
it, thRt we did not notice it.
Well , we had good communications pri or to blackout over
GuayrnRs .
After we started guiding, going into the atmos­
phere, communications went t o pot.
Status of recovery. I <lo not think recovery cou1d have
been any better.
Very smooth .
7. 4 Systems Configuration
The ECS, as we said before, we had o2 HI RATF. with both