Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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held that on in. It probably would have corrected
us out a little better cross- range-wise, but the
period of time that we were at 90 degrees
trying
to get the glide slope, to get onto the glide slope
there, is what cost us that 86 miles. Had we held
the nominal bank angle all the way ani ignored the
computer, I think we would have hit v3ry, very near
the carrier. But, we ... .at least we 1save the com­
puter a try. I think that if it had had the right
values loaded in it, I think it would have done
very well by us .
The spacecraft behaved very well .
Ionization, we got into that ionic layer. After
the 280K point, we began -to really ionize quite a
bit and got into a typical fire ball E•ffect back
there although it didn ' t seem to me l1ke it was
as much of a fire ball effect in this as it was in
Mercury. It seemed a lot less .
6.2 Acceleration Profile
Cooper
Acceleration profile, I noted the g ' s very early be­
f ore we got the 2g's on .
I noted the g' s felt
pretty strong in there.
I could feel them fairly
severe now.
I never felt at all from there on.
I
never even felt like we had any amount of g's on
us until I noted we had seven and a ha:.f and I could
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