Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
Wel l, I don't know.
You could do it on the ball .
I t hink if I had my choice between ball and rate
needles I ' d rather have the ball.
Conrad
Would you really? I'd rather have the rat e needles,
I think, because I could understand them even with this
crazy sensation; where I might try to int erpret the
But , you see,
Cooper
But , you see , our rat e needles never ven-;ured off
the middle .
We never got a rate on the :rate needles.
Conrad
Yes , well that' s fine.
Then you know yo·11 re staying
right where you want to be.
Cooper
And the ball--to me the ball i s the real good
i ndicator. If you keep your rates down ·;o zero you
still coul d actually get off slightly in attitude
and still have almost, you know, essentially
negligible rat es .
Conrad
I t hink the point is it, it ' s pretty comforting to have
a whole bag of instruments .
Cooper
Yes , i t sure is .
Conrad
I ' m not saying i t can' t be done, but rea lly there was
no sweat on night ret rofire.
Gordo ' s ri15ht about
that. I mean, we went through that, turned the lights
up bright-­matter of fact, it's just likn you're
back in t he si mulator.
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