Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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5.6 Communications
Cooper
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Cooper
FCSD Rep
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Communications were good throughout the whole re­
entry. We went into blackout right on time.
Right on time.
Yes, just right on the second when they said we'd
go into blackout. We came out just exactly when
they said we would..
The only thing was, when they
asked us what our over- shoot or under-shoot was
I ' ll be dam if I could t ell them at that point.
I sure as heck didn't know with this computer t ell­
ing us one thing and yet it not doing the right
thing.
We'd better put the retrofire IVI readings in here .
269 aft , 010 l eft , 181 down.
And that comes out
amazingly close to a nominal combination.
As a
matter of fact, it shows that we should have had
about a 60 degree bank. angle, and if you compensate
the 6o degrees for the off- set it would have been
54 or 53-­
Yes.
Almost completely nominal.
I think this chart's a handy gouge . It agrees with
what the ground gave us. We didn' t fly it, of
course, We flew the computer, but-­