Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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but everything else worked like the Eimulator
timewise, but that time period seemed extremely
short to me in comparison to simul ator reentry.
Yes, it sure did to me.
Yes.
Now we can go back and look at the times and
see what the actual times were to these-­
Maybe just in real time- ­
This might have been the real- time case to make-­
How about the altimeter?
It worked very poorl y on lift-off. It had been
very jerky and jumped all around but it was smooth
as a bell. Boy, it came off the peg. It locked
up at 96 000. What was it? It did it in the alti­
tude chamber.
96 800 feet or something like that.
It didn't ever run to 100 000 and it never had.
It didn't do that in the altitude cha.rlber, and it
quit where it always quit- -96 800.
I t came off the
peg smooth and just wound right on down.
No jump­
ing or jittering.
It was right with the barostats comine: down.
Yes, it was right with the barostats coming down.
I called the altimeter off the peg to Gordo and he
put the landing arm on, which was roushl y at