Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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2. 2 Roll Program
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our sight as we were lifting off, and I couldn't
tell any visual cues to lift- off, could you?
You had the feeling that you were moving visually.
After you get your roll program you see it visually
and you can see the pitch program starting visually,
but just at first l ift-off you don't really have
any visual cues .
Cockpit displays are just l ike
advertised.
The two stage - one lights go out, and
. .. just l ike the simulator.
Yes , I watched roll program on the gyro, I was
watching for it to come i n on time and in glancing
up when the roll program started I was still
looking at nothing but blue sky, but I was aware
visually as you say that the booster was rolling.
Yes , you can have a airplane when you are looking
at nothing but blue sky and start a motion and you
may not know exactly what the motion is, but you
know that you are moving.
Now on this cockpit display, something that I got two
different answers to from different people on how the
gyro and the actual case was going to be set and it
suddenly dawned on me that they actually set the gyro
so that you are launching down the 90 degrees. You're