Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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instruments--like I said I was watching the
i nstruments and they were sitting right dead
center.
]ordo had that t hing pitched down
30 degrees and we didn ' t hardly over 2 degrees off
that darn retro attitude.,and I was convinced we
were doing a loop-- even watching the gages .
That
is the worst set of vertigo that I ever had in my
life .
And I had the dist inct feeling that I had just lit
off the biggest after-burner I ' d ever haa a h0~d
of and was going back straight west juat as hard
as I could hold on.
That's exactly the feeling.
And everyone of them had fired .
Yes,-.
Yes.
All over again and I really- - if you were doing it
on just rate needles--well , doing it on rate needles
wouldn't be as bad as doing it just on the ball
without rate needles.
Listen, boy
doing
it
.-....
just on the ball--that' s just bad news .
I always felt
even
in the trainer that
bad news.
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