Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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this gu.y just says, "I ' m sending a DCS update , "
and WHAM! her e it comes . No warning. No nothi ng.
Before you could even tell him to wait, t he
darn things i n reentry .
Conrad He didn ' t check his ground information, becaus e
if he ' d looked at his boar d , he would t.ave seen
that the computer was in r eentry. He could have
told us to put it in prelaunch. It all happened
so fast . Boy, my heart r eally sank , because we
had that thing-- we were all set up . We were rea~y
to go and everything and that was a bi g· blitz.·
Now , after 121 orbits and we'd left the Cape after
stateside track. Why, after 121 orbits did they
have to update that thing between the Cape and
Carnarvon? I mean they should have known where
the heck we where . I just don ' t understand it .
Cooper I don ' t either and if they are going to play
around with that , boy, my feelings r ight now on
i t is that that DCS circuit breaker oug~t to be
off all the time. I felt that way befo:ce , and
I deci ded well , those guys worked out so well that
maybe it would work , but after that one time ,
that just convinced me that you ought to just