Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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rate .
And past 27,000 feet that cabin :lndicator
hit zero fas~er than you could say Jack Robinson.
That thing came off the peg and I had to go back
to the old procedure of-­
Cooper
Snorkel open up.
Conrad
Snorkel vent open, and recirc at 45 deg.eees.
We didn ' t seal it up again until 2,000 , so that
didn't work.
Cooper
Then, at 10 . 6 the altimeter and the barostat
light were exactly right together. I punched the
main and it came out reefed. It held rnefed
for approximately 12 seconds .
We were nxactly
straight, no oscillations or swings or gyrations
on the chute at all. In fact, we were flO stable
on the chute that in the reefed condition the
skirt was exactly symmetrical arou."1.d thn bottom.
There was no breathing to one side or anything.
Conrad
I think that is another thing that speaks highly
of this rate command business, even through
we shut it off at 30,000 feet. By that time, we
were well slowed down, and there was no big os­
cillation, left on the drogue .
So the 1•est of
the ride with no system was free .
Now, when that
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