Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
I think either way (SEF, BEF) is good, both worked
very adequately and it just depends on which way
you want to aline for what you ' re going to do .
BEF is certainl y at least as acceptable as SEF.
ORBIT RATE was not bad off at all .
We didn't
have any l arge errors in it due to t he fact that
we had more nearly circulari zed our oroit from
t he burns that we did.
Conrad
We were about at 171-60 at that time p<=:riod.
I
don't know what t hey had picked as an orbit rate
number at the end finally for the REP.
Cooper
We were about 107, 166.
Conrad
Yes .
I was really surprised with how ,..,ell the
platform stayed on after just t aking a quick look
at zero- zero- zero, not even trying to ali ne these.
We just passed freely through this in dr ifting
flight and uncaged the platform right into Or bit
Rate, and it didn't get off five or ten degrees
in any of the three axis .
Cooper
For about 20 hours .
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