Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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similar control torques on the GMS to Eee what
kind of off - sets it would take before contr ol
problems are encountered.
I don ' t belj eve that
you would actually set one of the rockeits off
enough to bother you.
Possibly, you could
since it is not a straightline functi on.
Cooper
We had had adequate amount of reentry ·;raining.
If we ' d had a thousand hours more we would not have
done anything differently than we did.
Conrad
The reent ry in the simul ator and the roentry •
in flight up to a point went right down the
line , I would say to slightly after guidance
initiate.
Then, the ball angles were ~xtremely
steep in flight in comparison to the h·ainer.
I
would very much like to go back and ta«e a look at
this on the t rainer while it is fresh in my mind.
I always use the horizon for roll reference in addi­
tion to the r oll bug.
The horizon di sappeared too
soon on our reentry.
We were looking at all white
on the ball there for a long t ime.
Cooper
We pitched on up pretty good.
Conrad
Yes, we trimmed out at an awful high angle. The
stagnation point on the spacecraft inc.icated we were