John Company

Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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needles just barely changed .
We mus t not have
had any errors at al l .
Yes , I got a full error.
Did you have a full error?
Yes, my pitch error went all the way down , and
then it just steered slowly right back up.
Re­
member you-­
You did call and tell me you had a saturated-­
Di d you call saturated , or did you say we had a
bi g one?
I called it saturated, I believe.
That ' s right.
I called a saturated error and then I called you
that it was steering back to zer o.
Yes .
I remember that you did call that.
That ' s the way they showed this on the plot, t hat
i t would saturate there , am very quickly it
seemed to gradually steer right back up.
The steering rates that went in were on the order
of less than half a degree/second.
They were very low.
Very, very low because I was on
high scale.
The needle just barely deviated at all at RGS
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