Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
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We had some thrust remaining in every axis but yaw
l eft.
We had some in yaw left if you just wanted
to dump raw fuel overboard.
I don ' t know whether
it was fuel or oxidizer.
Cooper
Generally, what we'd do is roll and pitch to get
our yaw left .
Conrad
I f we were tumbling and wanted to damp we just
waited until we translated into the right axis in
which we had some authority.
Cooper
The one axis that always seemed to work pretty good
so far as control authority was pitch.
Conrad
Yes
Cooper
Pitch up and pitch down seemed to work reasonably
well all the time.
Conrad
Yes .
I wonder i f that had something to do with the
pitch thruster lines on the manifold being close
to the source. Pitch was always good.
Our trouble
was mainly coupling in the yaw thrusters both right
and left.
Cooper
Source pressure was easy to monitor.
SJurce temper­
ature we could monitor and it was too CJld.