John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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stars going by, and we were just going through the
world every which way, and we were supposed to
hold it that way f or ten minutes and we were--okay,
we were well aware .. . .
Cooper
Where were you? This day 7?
Conrad
Yes , and I just got to this big set of procedures
on that test and it didn' t work .
Cooper
I have a note here at Day 7, 3 hours and 19 minutes
only 22 more r evolutions to go.
Same length as
MA­ 9.
Conrad
Okay, now, here are the comments of the degregation
of the other thruster s .
Now left roll only with
the roll logic switch in pitch.
We had no right
yaw.
Right yaw only with the roll logic switch in
yaw position.
No left roll. Then if you had the
roll logic in yaw, pitch up and down were okay in
yaw right gave right roll also.
Pitch up , right
roll , pitch down you also got a right roll .
You ' ve got to figure out which thruster s were
weaker than the other ones .
Cooper
Roll right gave yaw right.
Conrad
Right, and then r oll logic and pitch rolled right
okay.
Roll left okay.
No left yaw.
So and the