Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
Cooper
FCSD Rep
Conrad
Cooper
the updated blackout at 16 + 14 and end of blackout
at 21 +20 .
He updated reverse bank as 19 + 25
for a bank lef t 54, a bank r ight 68, which was a
change of 1 degree from 53 and 67. He gave us
drogue at 22 + 05 and main at 23 +48, That was
the l at est updated quantity after retrofire .
Okay, spacecraft oscill ations-­
Could you tell anything visually?
Man, that thing was like a rock coming in!
I 'd
been hearing about 40 degree yaw oscillations
and the drogue and everything else. I f we had
anything over 5 degrees- -maybe it is just me ,
but I don't think we had anything over 5 degrees.
Let's start farther up in the reentry. After
we got to 280 K, I was switching back and forth
at this point from r ate to attitude.
I would
switch back to rate, and when I 'd see we had a
little rate build up, I 'd tweak it , and then
back to attitude and hold my attitude on the
attitude needles. Then I 'd wait just a few
seconds and switch back to r ate and t weak out
the little rates set in, and go back to attitude-­
back and forth in this f ashion. On single-ring
direct, I had more control authority, initially,