Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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out yesterday and that the load in it was valid . It 1 s
just that they computed the wrong place to land , in
Houston, and sent the wrong load , period . Boy , that
was a heck of a thing to do, and I really that darn
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DCS! m going to do just what I said I was going to
do. I f I ever fly again , I ' m not going to fly with
that DCS circuit breaker on. That ' s just exactly what
I was afraid was going to happen, and they couldn ' t
have done it at a worse time in the flient . They
just absolutely couldn't have done it wcrse . The
one thing that I had forgotten many times was putting
that computer from PRELAUNCH to REENTRY. I had it
underlined 50 times on the check- off liflt . I was
going to make sure that it was in REENTI'.Y . When they
told me leaving the Cape we had a valid load and a
valid TR , I called McDivitt and I said :: 1 m putting
the computer in REENTRY. The next thin/~ is , at
Carnarvon the guy should have seen on h:.s board that
the computer was in REENTRY and should have told me
instead of sending a load like he did . We moved as
f ast as we could when he said he was sending loads
to put the darn thing back to PRELAUNCH . That really
screwed us up and I 1 m really mad about that . That ' s
the only gripe I have against them, but it's a major one .