Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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2,10 POGO
Cooper
Conrad
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Cooper
It was beautiful. Just now in between engine 1
operation and engine 2 here we have two items we
will insert in here.
One was POGO..
At 2 mi nutes and 5 seconds we started
picking up POGO and I got a fairly gcod amount of
POGO on through, stopping just at abcut 5 to 7
seconds before staging.
POGO dropped. cl ean out
exactly the same time there that we programmed POGO
on the early days.
Yes, that one surprised me .
We ' d he1:.rd and read
tbat both John 8{!.d Gus ' s and Jim and Ed ' s f l i ght
that they were hardly even aware of IDGO and boy
when it came in on us it was loud anc. clear and,
well Gordon, neither one of us could talk hardly;
we were really vibrating with it and I was hard
pressed to read the displays. By golly , if I had
to re__:-t ;--e num;-er on _
· ~- ~r-ays I- think I woul d
ad -;-:h- - --:b- _ __
, e a:-i sp ___ .,,.
have been hard pressed to do it, because we really
had it pretty good.
Yes , the rate ... the amplitude of them were such
. . . 11 cps frequency and the ampl itude of them was
such that you were on -- you were on the marginal