Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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and stuff like -- Nothing like that.
I bet you couldn't make it any more than 2 or 3
or 4 degrees.
Yes , I would say 5 at the most.
Now I don't have
any horizon or anything to reference this to.
All
I ' m doing is watching the drogue.
But I didn' t
have any physical sensations, or -­
There were no physical sensations of any kind of
oscillations.
The frequency was too high to ever get any amplitudes
that big. We were just sitting there and the drogue
looked steady to me , see, and all I could see was
the nose and the shrouds zacking back and forth like
that.
Ob, sort of around, and, you know.
They were
both at pitch and yaw.. .but I felt comfortable all
the time .
I didn't have any idea that we were
really going to -­
It was well stabilized. Stable as a rock
Now, I'll tell you that RCS was really working.
Now, we were in RATE COMMAND not REENTRY RATE COM­
MAND, we were in RATE COMMAND.
So, it would .
I
mean, it was firing full time.
Yes, it was really working.
We were outside the rate command bands .