Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
Cooper
shows that it is .
The Pulse mode was very economical
on fuel and I felt that in the sinru.latc,r you had a
little more authority than you actually did in the
spacecraft .
The spacecraft had slightly less
authority in Pulse than the sinru.lator does .
Inci­
dentally, you can use Pulse just for a month of
Sundays and never see the fuel go down on the 0AMS
gage at all. You can use Pulse all day long with
using little fuel usage.
Horizon s can, the primary
Scanner was inoperative as was stated e3.Tlier.
The
Secondary Scanner worked fine. The sca::mers, I
think, operated quite satisfactorily. We had a lot
of scanner dropout in the primary and eiren in the
secondary.
We had some dropout in the :iecondary
when we first were going in and out of i;unlight
areas .
But then it seemed to work allright.
Horizon Scan Control Mode worked fine .
Real good.
It's a loose mode but it still works fir..e .
It's got wide limits on it of course, -which i s
okay.
The mode itself works fine.
There was some­
thing really fouled up in the platform rnode. It didn't
work at all like it's supposed to. The platform mode
is supposed to be plus or minus 5/loth of a degree. If
it was plus or minus 10 degrees I 'll eat my hat .
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