Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
FCSD Rep
Conrad
Cooper
yourself a nice steady ride. We never :Jaw a:ny­
thing that approached over 5 degrees oscillation.
The nice thing about the control system is that
i t is a simple matter to switch back and forth
between direct and rate command in the uystem
that we had set up. If you are damping and the
damping gets to be t oo much of a t ask, or it
gets more than you can damp, all you do is switch
over to the ACME position on this one switch and
i t will damp in the rate command .
In that rate
command, you have really good damping.
You might
as well have a system that will damp it right
down to a gnat ' s eyebrow, and then you can switch
back into direct , concentrate to what you are
doing, and switch back and forth if you want to .
Let's see, drogue-­
Di d you get enough of an oscillation dw·ing
reentry? If you looked out the window .._•as there
enough trailing you that you could pr obc,bly damp
by looking at this? Was there any possjbility to
do this?
I don' t think the spacecraft is that un~table .
We didn ' t have that much oscillation.