Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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6.5
50K Feet
Cooper
FCSD Rep
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
the point where he put the Mercury d:t'ogue out. It
squidded a couple of times very nicely and stabilized
out and was just beautiful . . . .We nev,3r had any
oscillations on it or anything. It was just as
nice as it could be.
By 50K we had both RCS rings .ON, jus·: letting them
feed on out and then were blipping away out there
and the spacecraft just came right s1;raight down.
No oscillation or anything.
What kind of oscillation on drogue dnployment . . . .
what would you estimate the
I don 1·t think we had any at all .
I c.on' t think we
had a single oscillation real ly, wher. we deployed
the drogue, do you?
Oh yeah. It oscillated but the . . . . . it was sort
of high frequency and low amplitude .
That's just what I say.
I mean it was just kind
of like.. . ..It was just kind of like -- a little
quiver on the line. Like when you pluck a bow
string, you know, the string . . .. the spacecraft
would kind of go like this but not any- amount
of -­
These guys were talking about 40 degr3e yaw angles
Conrad