Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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6.1 400K
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
6 . 0 REENTRY
By the time we hit 400K I was at fuL lift positi on
from Retro Jett until there. Roll command gave a
roll right and a roll command the bug just as it
always does.
Time correlation was r t ght on the
money.
400K occurred right to the second when it
was supposed to.
Guidance initiate e>ccurred just
at 280K at exactly the right time anc. it indicated
we had a right .... the azimuth needle indicated
right and the down range needle indicated full
scale it was well up into the thing.
I would sey
maybe half deflection.
Yes.
That was full scale.
High sca]e was not - ­
The bank angle was 53 degrees left bank which was
our nominal bank angle which I went to at guidance
initiate and held 53 degrees l eft.
~he rool needle
at this time the roll needle indicated off full
right and vecy shortly thereafter then . . .. before
I even got suspicious that we weren't getting down
on this , the roll needle then crossed over the
middle position and held there indicati ng we had
the r ight bank angle there for a minute and then
crossed full scale over to t he other side . . . .
OhJEIDENTIAL