Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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We'd probably wound up 45 miles from the carrier-­
That going to the 90 degrees for the time period
that we did cost us 80 something miles .
Otherwise,
we flew the ~
The,.....wholy ning is if we hadn't tried following the
computer we would never have known
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Yes, and I'll tell you one thing.
I ' m still con­
vinced right now sitting in this room that computer
will bring you right in to where you want to go if
you have the right load in it, because it just\worked
magnificently. It came in just like it was supposed
to and it did it on boost, too .
I was really sold
on it. I think the computations in that computer
are accurate enough for the kind of work that a guy
can do onboard the spacecraft, and··it ' s a darn fine
piece of equipment and it was working well .
We're
the first ones to get a good look at 7 and it
worked just l ike it was supposed to. If it had the
parameters in it we'd have split the
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FCSD Rep
Cooper
ship right up the middle .
I think so. I think it's just a dirty shame.
What was the cross- range needle doing?
Cross- range was showing that·we needed left bank in
there--that we needed to move to the left. In other