John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

NASA-UAP-D020 · page 40 of 325

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ever going to do any better than that.
(Unless you
use the above procedure).
Translation REP deployment was passable .
This one you didn ' t .
You didn ' t fire back at the REP
after jettison?
No.
Let's replace this maneuver with the simulated opera­
tion (phantom rendezvous).
We did deploy the REP and the radar did operate
properly.
Originally when the debriefing guide was made out,
this section covered the translation back after REP
deployment and the subsequent translations.
Okay.
We 'll just have to use the translations that they
made on the simulated run.
We kicked the REP out at 90 degrees right yaw.
We kicked it out at 02 07 + 15, or 15 seconds l ate.
The reason we were 15 seconds late , as we stated
earlier, was that going into the night side the night
before , after all our careful platform alinements,
all of a sudden the horizon scanner began to drop