Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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hardly believe it. So, I didn't have any trouble
controlling or... I just didn't think about having
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it on there. Pete noticed the g's more t han I did
because he wasn' t as busy, I guess, as I was.
6.3 Spacecraft Control
Cooper
Spacecraft control was beautiful.
There was no
problem at all. I was on single ring DIRECT and
then had gone fairly late down in the guidance
program there when the oscillations got to be often
enough in there that it was taking a little concen­
tration to damp the oscillations as well as to watch
the guidance.
I just went over the single ring
ACME or RATE COMMAND ACME and let the RATE COMMAND
damp the oscillations and I was doing the steering,
with the RATE COMMAND also. Still single ring.
6.4 100K Feet
Cooper
Let ' s see, at a 100K the altimeter ca.me off the peg
very shortly thereafter.
I was going to arm both
RCS rings, bringing on ring B to ACME .at 70K and
instead I deliberately, calmly, cooly, and del ibera­
tely deployed the drogue chutes .
And it worked
beautifully. Most stable drogue chute I ever saw.
It squidde~ just like a supersonic drogue test that
were done in Mercury that I saw.
In fact, 70 was