Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Conrad
Cooper
FCSD REP
Cooper
FlDENTIA
One and a half orbits.
We really aline•d in about one
and a half orbits.
We powered up two and one half and thei:. actually,
we were actual ly alining for about an crbit and a
half before retrofire.
And we were on all the aline­
ment and everything was done on the RCc system.
How about the preretro checklist?
Let me say this on this alining.
We fcund t hat we
coul dn't even see any decrease at all jn RCS after an
orbit and a half. The way we were doirg this we were
doing it i n Horizon Scan BEF then using· the Rllse MJde
in the H')rizon . Scan.
To really keep tl:.ose needles
real ly closely centered.
Now, you can do the same
thing in Tu.lse BEF, -but the Ibrizon Scan if you ne­
glect it for just a minute, the lbrizon. Scan would
hold it in there real closely and wouldn't let you
wander off anywhere in pitch.
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