John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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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- ­