Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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chute deployed we weren' t even swinging or anything.
Like Gordo said, boy, when tha t thing came out of
the reefed condition, it was perfectly circular
around the bottom.
We looked at movies of these
things and we've seen them collapsed on one side,
billow out, and collapse, and everything. It
didn't do that .
That chute came out, stayed
perfectly circular. Whenever the number of seconds
went by, and the thing dereefed, it dereefed per­
fectly circular. It never breathed, never
oscillated, never swung or anything.
Cooper
And we never turned on it either.
Conrad
We never turned or anything. The only oscilla­
tion we got the whole time was when we went to
two-point.
We got the see-wawing action. That
was it. We went straight into the water. The
chute almost landed on top of us.
Cooper
Okay, on Rand R separation--we might cover that
after drogue deploy--it is just exactly like it
looks in the sequences .
You see all the whole
smear trunneling out there, the great long Rand
R section going out, and all the lines feeding
out , and then the main opens, and the Rand R
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