Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

Text

This text came with the file. It may have mistakes. When the text and the image disagree, the image is right.

200
CQNFIDENTiAL
FCSD Rep
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
You don ' t use the reentry command?
Heck no!
No, no that's useless .
We had fuel up the kazoo.
We had all kinds of fuel .
We figured to just go
into RATE COMMAND.
That' s exactly what -­
to see how smooth a reentry you could make .
The only thing we deviated from our very carefully
calculated preflight plan was that I , instead of
going to dual ring RCS, I put the drog~e out at
70K.
We just had that step backwards betwee:1 50 and 70K.
There must be a hold over from Mercury there some­
where, too, still getting to me .
Okay, now the next most important thing was that at
50 000 or shortly thereafter, we went ·;o repress .
Gordo turned on the REPRESS and I hit ·;he o2 HIGH
RATE , and as we planned you know, we wHr e not going
to vent the cabin or open the inlet snorkel , and
man , going through 27 000 feet that neEidle hit zero
faster than you can say "Jack Robinson." That
cabin came down from 5 paid to nothing and I said
"Holy Christmas" ; it came down so fast t hat I was
really humping to get the ... . . I wanted to get the