Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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the inertial velocity readout on the ga.ge and that
was ·beautiful 25,808 and nominal was S-.lpposed to be
25,807.
You can't ask for a better calculation
from a computer than that, and a lot of people
don ' t have much faith in that thing but, I think
that I'll bet that the computed MCC figure isn't
more than a foot or two off. I t couldn ' t be
because everything was nominal for hours and hours
in the past, Day's it went that way where we
stayed on the flight plan to the minute, to the
second so I know that it was a good computation,
and I have the five address readouts that we read,
We read out address 72 as 25,808; address 94 which
was R dot for gamma was plus 20 feet which is
pretty darn small so we must have almost a zero
gamma address 97 which is the forward IVI was plus
2 feet; address 52 was perfect, it was zero.
So
there was no adjustment needed and if there had
been an adjustment needed that would ha:ve come
at 3,042 seconds on the computer if tbere had been
an address .
52 correction and nominal 3,008
seconds so the computer computed the nomi nal thing
off only by less than a minute, about a half a