Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
FCSD Rep
Cooper
Conrad
Conrad
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I thought it held to about a degree and a half .
Not in yaw, you remember. It allowed yaw to wander
off by probably a good 10 degrees there. Remember
it allowed right yaw to wander off by about 10 degrees
and just sit off there in right yaw several times.
It wouldn't even bring it back.
Yes.
That was the trouble.
Do you think this had anything to do with your con­
trol problem?
W-ell, it may have been. It may have been that con­
trol was somewhat intermittent right there.
I don ' t
know, but it might have been.
But Rate Command sure
worked good using those same controls.
Yes.
I suspect that being the first time that it
was cranked up since spacecraft number 2, it may not
have been tweeked as well as it could have been.
It certainly didn't work like it did on the simulator,
I 'll put it that way.
It didnlt work properly, and it was no good the way
it was.
We never used it after we originally tried
it out and after we
1d tried doing this one burn on it
to see if it would hold.
The one that it did hold
on, our first perigee adjust, it held beautifully.
During the next one, it got so bad it wasn
I t any