Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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See, the REP went straight out and kept on going.
The REP goes straight out and then it just kept on
going. It was slowing down very l ittle and just kept on
going and going and going and going.
And it never really stopped.
What it d:Ld was it
sorta, it sorta starting going off this way, you !mow,
and it never got out to a node point wh~re you had
a definite stopping range and a start back in again.
Well, the range rate never got below a foot per second.
The range rate never decreased.
You never got a decrease
in range rate, but it just kept-it started drifting slowly
of f the 270 line on back out, but it we·nt straight
out the 270 line to a- ­
What was the range?
Do you remember what the range was
when it sti ll was out there?
It went straight like relative motion to us would
have looked like it went out looking down a plan form,
if we were here. It looked like it went out like this
and it slowly started doing this.
Yeah.
And it never did have a stop to it. It finally crossed
behind us back in here someplace.