Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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rest of it.
We never got more than a mile from him,
so we got that 3000 foot transient but we never got
the 30,000, What was the transient at 3000 feet
like? Do you remember, Gordo? On radar when the
REP went farther than 3000 feet , I don't think there
was any transient to speak of.
Cooper
I didn't notice any particular transient, or any
noticeable one at all.
I was looking for it.
Conrad
Yeah.
We did the-­
Cooper
I had it damped pretty well .
Conrad
We never did get the radar to run for 3 hours, so
we didn ' t get test 5, test 4, no correlation between
range and range rate display and visual observations
at short range, they all worked very well. Test 6,
we observed the normal transients that you'd expect,
just as advertised on here, and I also noticed that·
the lock- on light cycled on and off, on and off,
when I was in a standby mode after warmup.
Radar
test 7, stand by to ON, you have to get Gordo on
that.
Conrad
Test 8.
We dashed over there the first time and as
soon as we were within about 260 to 270 miles, the
radar locked up on 248,66 miles .
I got the first
digital readout on address 69 and it read down to