Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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in the spacecr aft. Gosh, we' re messing
around with the star charts--still don' t
tell you how much to pitch up or yaw
around to find the darn thing.
They tell you where it would be on yaw
path.
You just sort of got to figure it out­
it •s over to the left or the right and
go over and look for it . Well, that ' s
not the way to do it .
Heck, we never
navigated that way in the Navy.
You
go into star chart with local hour angle
and it gives you the elevation and azimuth
to the star, from North, and that ' s
essentially what you need here.
You
need the elevation and azimuth angle off
the orbital plane.
OK , let's see--at day 4, 14:56:50 we had
a D-4, D- 7 White Sands Sled Run which
was successful .
And then we got the ship.
An then we got the D- 6 424a r ight after
that. At 14:57:31 we got D-6 sequence 134.