Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
Cooper
FCSD REP
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
It really was.
However, if you don ' t have full instrunHmt panel,
I ' d recommend you forget it.
Because i:~ you don ' t
have an 8 ball and
rate gyros and a clarn
good rate da.mping--well, that ' s not true.if you've
got an 8-ball and r _ate gyros , then you could fire
them just as well in .Jirect system as well as Rate
Command; although,
think, you could hcndle them
in direct with no problem.
Do you think you nee~ both the rate gyrcs and the
platform?
I do.
Yes.
I would strongly recommend that for a
night retro you not try them on purely rate gyros
because you just--even the little-­
And the reason-­
The RCS attitude system disrupts your night vision
so much out there that getting all squar =d away for
i t-- just about the t i me you I re getting right in
to retro attitude there if you have to f:ire a
thruster or two you'd completely lose you attitude-­
I think the other big thing is that that is
absolutely the world' s biggest "vertigo gi.ver" ,
because you are really g sensitive and when those
retros go off if you don ' t hav11 the whole smear of
00MFIOE~~TIAl'