Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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probably booken, and I began to look at them.
They looked good.
I decided, well, it wasn't really
any problem, even if I had broken the lines. All
I had to do was reach up and deploy the emergency
main deploy if it departed, and we were still in
good shape, so--no problem on it. As a matter
of fact, the combination of when the drogue went
out and the RCS left us as stable as a rock.
We just came right straight down t he glide slope
and I don't think we had any oscillations of any
kind all the way down, other than these very very
minor little higher frequency ones t hat felt like
vibrations off the drogue lines.
Conrad
There seemed to be more interaction between the
spacecraft and the drogue lines than anything
else.
Cooper
Right.
At the time that we came to the main
chute, when I pickled off the main chute, it
came out completely straight; we didn't oscillate
or swing on it at all.
Conrad
Let 's backup one second.
The best calculations
of m:ic.e and men were completely wrong though .
At 50 K we went on with full repress and o high
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