Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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edge of reading of any large gage and any fine
reading that you had to read, you would never be
able to read any numbers. It was exactly like
the POGO we did all along on the program up at
Ames and as the exact amplitude, I don ' t lmow, but
was, . . . . .
I think we don ' t want that ~
POGO.
It was no par icu ar y upsetting to me , because I
really was fai rly familiar with POGO having been
through all that POGO program, but this thing kind
of t i ckled me that we got it to see that we had
still hadn' t solved it , but I don ' t think . . .
its something you don ' t want because if you had ot~er
things going wrong during that period of t ime it
would make it vecy difficult to say what you had
wrong or what
It didn ' t upset me, but it surprised me , you lmow,
because I just wasn't expecting POGO.
Wbat g-level would you estimate it to be?
Well , we were sneaking right up there.
I mean the POGO .
Oh, it was right at about 5 g ' s .
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Well , I mean plus or minus amplitude.
Well I , my estimate on it was that it was something