Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Cooper
•.•to get on down to it because it told me-­
Conrad
We were just sitting there waiting for the needle
to come up like we had seen it do a million_.:t.ime
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in the same situation. It never came off the peg.
Then, we got in a little discussion, you know.
I
fel t that we ought to go to full lift because I
thought something was wrong with guidance.
Gordo
agreed that something was wrong with guidance but
he reall y t hought maybe we really had over­ shot.
I'm sure the retros were on time and they were
nominal , almost.
So , we finall y wound up going back
to the nominal l ift vect or- -
Cooper
I went back to the nominal bank angle, which we had
agreed we ' d go to i f anything happened.
We had agreed
with FOD that if anything happened throughout re­
entry--something was wrong with guidance-­
Conrad
We flew-­
Cooper
--we would go back to the nominal bank angle, that
we wouldn't take any great abnormal- type situation.
We woul d go back to t he nominal bank angle, so that
in the event they lost communication with us or
something screwed completely up in the reentry,
they would know that we used as near as possible to
the nominal bank angle.