John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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on the order of maybe three quarters of a g.
Well, I
don I t !mow whether it was that high c,r not.
Conrad
I thought it was at least a half, if not better.
Apparently it wasn't that high.
I ws.s really
surprised. Like I say, we were really getting the
ramrod out of it.
Cooper
s beyond what we selected as we th~ht
should be the cutoff. It was more tr.an wh~ we
l
had selected at Ames as being max acc7.
in this.I passed up ver b •
there one of
the first things that happened immediately about
the time that we got the pitch program was the
IGS Stage 2 fuel needle failed in thE full -max
deflection position.
And it came back on and was
reading after staging briefly and thEn failed again
during staging.
It was intermittent .
2.11 Engine 2 Status
Cooper
Engine 2 status stayed ... was perfect.
There was
not anything wrong at all.
2.12 Acceleration G' s
Cooper
Acceleration g ' s were right on the piofile, were
certainly very pleasant.
Nothing wrong at all with them.
2. 13 BECO