Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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That's right .
You get an idea of how much fuel you
use because Ring B was tested but never used
until below 65 ,000 feet; we shot 80 percent of the
fuel out of it on the drogue.
So , it iB no
surprise to me that Ring A ran out of fuel .
There is no doubt about it that Ring A ua.s still
running, unless somebody shows me otherwise on a
traces , at least past drogue deploy. It was run­
ning until at l east we got Ring B running.
I really firmly believe, based on what we tried
on here and my feeling on the thing, you could shoot
two or three orbits of attitude control and align­
ment and the whole smear of r e ~rofire ar.d the
whole reentry and everything on one rin€' with no
problem at all .
Now, let's look at another thing.
When you are
at drogue deploy, we were on rate command and there
was a high frequency, low amplitude oscillation,
but it was well outside the r ate band.
So, those
thrusters went to steady-state firing.
Yes, they did .
They were firing full blower all the way, trying
to damp.
And they did. They did an excellent