Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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FCSD Rep
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
FCSD Rep
Cooper
let you wander off anywhere in pi tch and roll .
You
had to watch the yaw very carefully, of course, but
you could concentrate on doing other things for just
a few seconds time and you didn ' t get your errors
built up into it.
You still have the iulse correc­
tion within the wider band of t he horizon scan.
We
found that little teensy little blips to make your
correction
and I don ' t think we were u:.:irig any
fuel at all.
Did you get any reading on how much yoi. did use?
I checked this morning and it ' s not i n yet .
I don ' t
know how much fuel .
We used Ring A sir.ce we powered
it up at 2 orbits, over Carnarvon the first time .
What I recall from the preretro checkl::.st - - it
commenced at Carnarvon one pass before reentry.
In
other words, we went an orbit and a ha:.f on the RCS
system -- Ring A.
Most of that time wEi were alining.
We used dual ring RCS rate command for retrofire
only.
Then we turned Ring B off and d:_d the whole
reentry on ring A.
Pulse .
You operated Ring A all the way?
The last I saw of Ring A in the reentr;;r, down before