Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965
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170 Conrad Cooper Conrad COt~fHIDEt~TIAb used all the translation thrusters on:.y one little splurt of it on the forward, i n other words the forward firing thruster- the smal l forward firing thruster, but they were all very,· very positive and you got very defi nite die1t i nct action out of them. And you really gc,t a feeling of real accel eration out of those aft f i r i ng ones, I thought. I felt l i ke you really were really had a big afterburner lit off when you lit those things. Yeah, man, I would have liked to have some more kinds to mess around-like turn off thruster 10 or something like that, and burn a couple of feet on one thruster because i n the si mulator you can't hold it in Rate Command. I think you probably can in the actual spacecraft. Well, I don ' t know whether you can or ~an ' t but t hink that the difference between 2 thruster operation and 1 thruster operation is going to be apparent to you just like that and the3e guys i n F0D are making this big deal about :1aving to burn after separation from the booster and maybe only have one thruster or anything and I think anybody who has flown that thing once :Ls going I