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- p. 7 …I've never seen an a~tual drawing
showing the horizon line on a window a…
- p. 11 …Conrad J i m and Ed made the comment that t hey never alined
BEF, that…
- p. 14 …We just never had much occasion during the f light
to use FREE.
Platform displays .
Bal…
- p. 18 …When Gordo'd stick a
shot of Direct in to go someplace, it never
showed up…
- p. 23 …rest of the heaters, we'd have never froze
them up.
Cooper 'llie thrusters themselves were…
- p. 28 …junk out of there . "
Conrad We ' d never seen anything like that before and we'd…
- p. 31 …I never saw fuel usage in the sim1lator like
we saw in flight .
I t just…
- p. 32 …We never used Rate Command except for the
maneuver burns.
Cooper We were tracking the missile…
- p. 34 …I never used or need it on
the simulator . I never liked it.
Conrad Pilots aren…
- p. 35 …Inci
dentally, you can use Pulse just for a month of
Sundays and never see the…
- p. 36 …We never used it after we originally tried
it out and after we 1 d tried…
- p. 38 …He tracked
as well as he did in the simulator and we never had
this show…
- p. 39 …But we never fail ed t o have fairly
sizeable ones , like fa and fo fps…
- p. 43 …We had never run into this problem where
we'd gone through a complete insertion checklist
- p. 46 …Conrad It di d something like I 1
d never seen before!
Cooper I 1
d…
- p. 47 …I t was never
f ar away from us . During five night cycles it was
close…
- p. 51 …I really don't remember making a burn-
We never did anything in the day--
Yeah…
- p. 53 …like we could have had four or five
times the offset we had--and never have
,.
- p. 55 …Which
worked out versJ well and there was--there
never was really any oscillating-you never…
- p. 57 …I watched i t quite closely for
a while and then it never went beyond
that…
- p. 62 …stowed in the footwell ,
and they were never put on again until just
before retrofire . We…
- p. 64 …in the foot well and
they were never put on again until just before
retrofire . We…
- p. 65 …Then i t bled down slowly t o about 4 , 9 and never
budged from there…
- p. 66 …The cabin fan we never used at
all until we turned it on just before retrofire ;
- p. 67 …Cabin
pressure relief valve; never actuall;r did we . . .
the cabin pressure dual regulator , the release…
- p. 68 …Manual heater we never used. The controls ;
we did very little as f ar as doing…
- p. 69 …stayed, just like for the check list . Never saw
one quiver in either one of them…
- p. 71 …drowning
us out or whether they just never got us. At any
rate , nobody was getting…
- p. 76 …out I shattered it a.nd Gordo never used the one on
his side because it…
- p. 77 …supposed to but then
a 4.9 never moved. We covered the co bit. Did
2…
- p. 78 …It never bothered
us, of ~ odor. The normal type venting system
worked fine.
Cooper I covered…
- p. 79 …switched
out of reentry to prelaunch but never got any DCS
l i ght on either…
- p. 83 …Conrad Let ' s face it Gordo, once we got those controls
set, we never moved them…
- p. 88 …I never saw any big needle deviations.
I didn ' t see this big pitch transient at…
- p. 93 88
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never…
- p. 94 …Well, then we never did get ·to check '- a.ny
thing in the rendezvous mode.
Cooper…
- p. 95 …I wonder if that thing is on the bright-d im sequence
We never did put…
- p. 96 …Conrad But we never did have any reason to dim it in the
simulator. You never…
- p. 100 …I never had the occasion to use it.
That's the only time I used it…
- p. 102 …We never had any false lock problems
at all . We didn I t really give these…
- p. 104 …We never did burn our lights too steadily unless we
absolutely had to . The other problem…
- p. 107 …without
ever turning the lights on and never even looking at
the instrument panel when we…
- p. 112 …Just by folding them
a certain way, and this you would put away and never
pull…
- p. 115 …Then we thought , well , that ' s
odd. Never had noticed that. Where is that island
off…
- p. 118 …r eentered with them down,
and they never came out of the down position. They
could…
- p. 121 …Conrad We never had any t r ouble with them when w1~ put on a
new…
- p. 134 …And uh , then
I usually wound up having about 5 hours off , but
I never s…
- p. 148 …there
and our regular orbital map , we never would have be
gun to have found these…
- p. 153 …9,5 Thruster Illuminati on Checks
Conrad Never did it . We were supposed to do it…
- p. 154 …We never got more than a mile from him,
so we got that 3000 foot transient…
- p. 155 …after that over the Cape , but we never g~t the range
to read right . I…
- p. 158 …We started the flight plan right away and we never
turned around to look at it…
- p. 159 154
Conrad We never saw any of the scheduled ones but you ' ve
got to have…
- p. 162 …Celestial --
Gosh, we coul d see seventh magnitude stars--
Mercury never had a window. Our windows…
- p. 163 …pointed
out one night that I had never seen before. It
looked like an Aurora. It…
- p. 171 …him for 500 miles out and we
never lost t hem.
Just the lighting conditions were…
- p. 173 …Conrad Well , I tell you we saw some lightning· like I
just never dreamed existed. I…
- p. 195 …We never go t a rate on the :rate needles .
Conrad Yes , well that ' s fine…
- p. 199 …Let's see--
Spacecraft was- -boy, I never even saw-•
What do you recall on visual…
- p. 201 …left me plent,v of
attitude control . Never once when I cheJked the
rates were the…
FCSD Rep
Cpnrad
11.4 Visual Acuity
Cooper
FCSD Rep
Conr ad
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Japan, Japan weather, night pies , stars, Milky Way,
thunderstorm and lightning, something village , China,
something Shanghai , Marshall Islands , tropical storms ,
oil well fires in Africa, geol ogy in India, Tibet,
Solomon Islands , sequences across Arabia, New Guinea,
China coast, Islands due west of someplace can ' t
• I
read it -- West Coast Africa, I cant read any of
Gordo's wr~ting, some other islands , 102 Rev
Austral ia, Canaries , S- 5 no . 48 -- wonder what that
was -- East Africa, very hazy, African geology, Cape
Kennedy , ice particles , and that's it . Pretty
varied (laughter) . That ' s a lot of film there , I ' ll
tell you.
Greed on Tibet?
No , that was Gordo -- he real ly goes for that Ti beten
country up ··there -- that I s where he sees all his
goodies . It's pretty clear and pretty· up there .
and As tronaut Visibility (S- 8/D-13) and Vision Test (M-9)
Okay .
Why don ' t we go --
Okay -- updating techni ques and communications pro
cedures. Again remain the same as before . Equipment
set up -- the thing we had there , of course, was a
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