Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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job of keeping it damped.
We were steady as rock
coming in there.
Cooper
Of course, this is the way to do it.
Conrad
They were firing all the way, and it doesn't
surprise me at all that we used all that fuel out
of Ring B.
But Ring B, I know, wasn't put on
until the drogue was out. And I know t hat Ring B
had no fuel taken out of it except to test it
two orbits back. There are some 33 pounds in
Ring B, and there was 4.9 oxidizer and 4.6 fuel
left in Ring B.
So, we shot almost 25 pounds of
fuel on the drogue.
Cooper
Which is fine .
You might as well use the fuel up
at that point .
There's no sense in saving it.
Conrad
Again, this tells me that up to drogue deployment
you might as well take that reentry rate command
and throw it away because the pilot i sn't going to
accept four degrees per second anyhow.
He is
going to d.Q.mp before that. So, you might as
well use the wire for something else .
Use rate
command, and if you fly the reentries just like
that , you've got more than adequate fuel in Ring
B to poop it away on the drogue and insure