John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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minute of what the actual nominal value
/een , so I think thats pretty darn good
ascent routine in that comput er, and I think hat
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now that we have Math flow 6 in there t his i
why I
think the guy shouldn't get so darn worried in MCC
underspeeds and giving them burn co/rections
t his Mickey Movse.
I' ve been
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t rying to make tbis pein-t-ewe· since we got
associat ed with . . . .
I think we had better immediate data avail abl e on
board than people have been giving it credit for .
That ' s right, and it really pleased me to see it
come out on the computer this way.
And had we never gotten our communications back
we would have known that we were i n good shape
because of the data we had on board, we didn' t
have to worry about the ground readouts and
what to do; we would have known what to do whether
we had been under or over or anything else.
Attitudes and rates , t here weren ' t any rat es .
The thing was steered right down the slot .
We
came off smooth.
Spacecraft separation
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