Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Regardless of which way you approachec. it from,
whether you approached i t fast or slm.- or whether
you 're going through the 90 or 270 pojnt on the
ball, you can go right smack through the middle
of it, you can sit right in the middle of it,
you can move up or down, r ight or left and the
ball doesn't jump, doesn't j itter, doesn't do
anything.
It's just beautiful .
Conrad
Yes .
Cooper
We did a burn right through each one of the poles .
I think the controls are pretty simila-r to what
they are in the simulator .
There are t wo
exceptions, one of which I think i s valid and
which I think may be influenced by the fact that
we had a lot of s low degredation in ou:~ OAMS
system.
I thought that the PlJISE system in the
spacecraft had a lot less torque, a reasonable
amount less torque and it got a lot leBs, as we
went along it got less and less and leHs .
Conrad
Yes .
Cooper
But even i nitially, it felt like thP- PlLSE system