Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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other thing is is when you hit the thrusters you
can very definitely tell from the sound that some
were putting out· more than others.
I think that ' s what was giving us the yaw
roll off was that in pairs of thruster of one would
be strong maybe and one weak and would give you
couplings .
That was exactly what was happening.
~'.hey were
cross coupling.
It was really messy.
And then I 1ve got down here the roll..
I have
nothing else in the book until we start talking
about retro here and the changes that we decided
to go into 121- 1 instead of 122.
And t here would
be 27 minutes over Carnarvon instead of 36 and all
the power up sequence.
Now , I ' ve got one comment .
We came up over Carnarvon and when I hi:.d-- when
we left the Cape on the Rev going into retrofire
a transmitted a val id load up t o the sJacecraft
and I called McDivitt and I said , "I ' m putting the
Computer into Reentry," and we came up over
Carnarvon and the guy says , "Stand by. I ' m going
to update you computer with a new load .
Boom!"
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