Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965
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176 Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad Cooper Let 's go through these now. Number 1 fired exactly on time. Boy, right on the money with 'I'R. We were right on the money. Every clock we: had in the spacecraft was just reading right O when it fired. No delay or anything anywhere. Just beautiful. Number 1 was still firing when number 2 started to fire. That 's correct. And there was no off-set whatsoever from. number 1 and number 2. That's right. Then number 2 had finished firing for a definite delta time period before number 3 fired. That's right. Then number 3 fired and had an offset to the left--to the left--yes to our left which was not bad and I think they had r times that am::runt of off- set it had and still hold it with th~ RCS, no with the rate command. No problem at all. No doubt in your mind. You were way more t han over powering. You must keep it glued right t here. But then number 3 finished firing and then there was an even greater delta time-