Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Yes, for about 20 hours that we drifted around.
It was finally off the most in roll. It got about
15 degrees off in roll.
Orbit Rate worked very well.
Other than inertial work, I just didn't see any
big advantage in free.
You'd still think in
terms of the local horizon up there most of the
time.
Yes .
We just never had much occasion during the f light
to use FREE.
Platform displays .
Bal l operation through the poles was just
fantastic! It was so smooth.
The only way you
could tell that you were going through a pole
is you could see the roll index, vehicle is on the
roll gimbal, flip .
Yes.
This is something we had trouble finding
out, whether this was the case or not and we
deliberately ran several specific checks of this.
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