Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Yes, those lines were useless as far as the horizon
on it , because there wasn't any horizon out there.
You had to use the 8-ball entirely?
Yes.
That was a pure instrument retro.
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You're darn right, boy.
11 guarantee you anytime
you fire retros at night, you'd better have instru­
ments because you 're not going to have a visual out­
the-window, because those RCS thrusters out there
will just blind you.
Yes, and this t alking about doing this stuff on rate
needles and no ball and everything is a bunch of
hog-wash.
You'd better have the whole panel.
You're darn right.
Or you fire them in the daytime, with a good horizon.
Let me see now.
You rolled it upside down, and what
did you hold? You held 20 degrees -­
20,degrees until it st art ed trimming out.
Then, I'd
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switch between rate and attitude.
I ' d just hold that
attitude and when I'd see a little tiny rat e creep
in -- I was on single-ring pulse - - I'd just pulse that
rate out.
Of course, _: that was establishing my trim
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angle right there.
You'd see it on the rate. You'd