Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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COMflDEN I IA[»
could have hung on long enough to find out where
i t crossed us behind there.
Let's back up just a minute on your lock on.
Okay.
Boy, it just clung right on to it and zap.
We got the lock on and the darn range and range
rate came right on there. It was moving right
out at about 5 1/ 4 feet per second just throttling
right down the old line.
Address 69 was reading just fine.
Everything was right on the money.
Address 58, 59-­
The range was moving right on out just like it
should and we were sitting right there on our 270
point on the ball tracking right straight out for
a long ways out.
Then is when the variance came
in, when it kept going out. It should have
started slowing down on range rate.
But, it
seemed like it was slowing down awfully slow. It
seems like the range rate kept on for quite a ways .
You know I had a 58,of -63.8, and a 59 of a 13~8
at .89 miles and we should have never gotten that
far away from i t ever--in the beginning.
See with it moving out at the R that we had, all
the figures we had ever run on it--we had our own