Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
FCSD Rep
Conrad
Cooper
Now , what really hurt there though was that he
sat there at the nominal bank angle of 53 degrees
..
until we got to, say, 2 1/2 g's , which is a fair
.long time through the guidance... .
When he elected
to roll to the 90 degree bank angle, that' s when
we were getting the most lift. Boy, we dug in-­
I 111 tell you we shot up there to 7 1/2 g ' s in
nothing flat. It was at about that time that we
rolled back out again, you see .
We 'd lost the main
lift that we were going to get out of it, but, as
it is, I don't think we did so badly ·Ninding up 83
miles short.
I understand they were targeting
240 miles short .
That's apparently what the load they had in the computer
turned out to be--erroneously put in a.t 240 miles
short .
Yes , they were off by a factor of 240 miles .
So, if we had followed the computer e:icactly we'd
have been a lot further shorter than we were.
Fortunately, we recognized that somet:1ing was amiss.
Did that down-range needle ever do an;rthing?
No, I don ' t think it moved at all,
I don ' t think it ever really moved.
I think one
time it moved a little, but I really don ' t think
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