Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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it moved much.
Conrad
I think we were hoping to see it move, you know,
but it was just one of those- -that's a fast time
situation there, and it was jus~ one of those things
where we made the right decision in the end to go
back to the nominal bank angle. Everything in the
computer indicated--the time to 400K and roll needle
initiate were within a second of one another. What
the ground gave us- ­
Cooper
And the time to 290K was exactly right.
Conrad
And 280K time, roughly as far as we knew and every­
thing- -BANG!
in comes the guidance initiate down­
range predict on the needles. Everything up to
that point--the computer had come on green, the
IVI's read nominal, we saw the kind of thing we
expected to see.
We were completely suckered on
that, because the computer worked just like it was
supposed to-­
Cooper
And the down- range needle indicated exactly what
it always will do and exactly what we'd briefed
with FOD.
They had agreed that what we should see
on the computer is just about the maximum deflection
on the low scale when it first comes on.
Conrad
And that's just what we got.
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