Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
You don't want to be deceived by the fact that
the needles are holding in the center pretty well.
Cooper
That's right, one thing that we found when we
were going through this real, real long platform
alinement prior to getting all l i ned up for retro­
fire was that we had the needles all alined, t hey
were sitting all glued out .
But you have to s i t
there with them for a little bi t glued out.
They
sit there all zeroed out, it looks like everything
was all alined and al l of a sudden yaw begin to
ease off quite a bit showing that we weren ' t
alined.
Conrad
At one time we went to Orbit Rate when we had not
pulled the yaw all the way in and, boy, it showed
up in roll as we started moving around.
Cooper
Orbit Rate and Horizon Scan.
Conrad
I mean it shwed up in the roll axis .
Cooper
Oh, yes.
Right.
Conrad
You have to take t he time and be careful with the
platform alinement, no doubt about i t.
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