Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
FCSD REP
our old platform position which was BEF and started
right from there in lining in a fine line by BEF position
going out just- lining from there and we found that
we had quite a yaw error in it. We noted that-
That showed up in roll real fast .
So we noted then that our yaw-what we figured was our
yaw star one of them that we remember as our yaw star
was a little bit over to the right about 10 degrees.
So we just went to cage. Eased it over about 10 de­
grees, uncaged it in BEF and sure enough then we went
to platform position in BEF showed the needles weren't
very far off. Right away they began to aline....
very closely and we had it alined very shortly.
Yes, I can't say too much for that star chart either,
boy, it was real comforting to have those yaw stars
and it turned out that Scorpio went right down the middle
of the tube for us. We just always knew that we had
the platform in good alinement be for retrofire. We knew
that we were right on in yaw all the way down that line
and we could just name the stars and we knew that they
were just going to come right down the middle by watching
them go and it worked real well.
How long did you aline the platform?