Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Lets
I
see, retro rockets squib
all four
armed at TR- 3O, arm auto- retros at about TR- 5 seconds
Yes .
TR- 5.
And I absolutely positively go on record
that the manual retro-fire button was pushed, because
I pushed it four times at one second ani the COMP
l ight went green at -­
One second after auto?
No.
One second after the retros actuall y fired.
At TR- O' spacecraft attitude was right on the money.
Ther e were no rates.
Control mode was dual RCS
I've got a couple of comment s about the retros .
There ' s no doubt in my mind that the number 3 retro
stopped firing at l east a half a second before the
number 4 retro started t o fire.
It sure did.
And there was another one in there -­
There was no overlap.
iI I m pretty sure that between the second and the
l
t hird, there was no overlap -­
Between 2 and 3.
-- but they were much closer together than between
3 and 4.