Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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and even with a star chart sitting in front of you
it wouldn't help you with spacecraft orientation.
I take it that what you are saying.
Do I know
what I am in roll, pitch and yaw to the horizon, or
something like that.
I don't think so, because
most of that stuff is moving too fast up there.
Cooper
Well , so far as it's yaw orientation :.t gives you
relatively good angle. For instance you always
know if you swing around just one lit·;le
You
remember when we would swing around and there was
Cassiopeia, you knew that you were hended generally
north.
Conrad
Well , yes that's true.
You knew that you were on
one side of the track or the other.
n
Cooper
Pleides and the ... whenever you would see the
Pleides, it always points east, so thnt gives you a
clue and there are several pretty good clues and I
always lmow when I see Delphinus that the Summer
Triangle is near by.
Conrad
You're right, it would tell me where H was pointed
but it wouldn't have told me anything in roll. In
othe.r words I wouldn I t say that I would use it
completely for a three axis spacecraft orientation.
It might give me an idea of which way the sky was