Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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in PULSE.
Cooper
That's right.
We actually only bad it in PULSE.
Conrad
And really what it is--as a matter of fact , firing
in PULSE and everything--you could always keep
the ~9rizon in sight.
Cooper
You could keep the horizon in sight and we had the
red lights on, and only we didn't have them down
dim and firing just in pulse you could hold the
attitude visually very well, but when you go into
any amount of RCS thruster firing you've lost the
horizon.
Conrad
Yes.
Cooper
Okay.
One thing we have here on thruster firing
both attitude and translation.
I think we covered
attitude pretty well.
I think our OAMS was a
very good attitude system to begin with.
I
think it was gradually degrading as the flight
went on. Getting worse and worse and worse and
mushier and sloppier so it was not fair to evaluate
it later on in the flight because it was pretty
miserable.
But the RCS attitude was beautiful.
It was really good. It was crisp and real precise
and just a real pleasure to fly.
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