Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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out on us and we began to drift off in yaw.
Conrad
Dropping out wouldn't have been bad, but when it
dropped out it also commanded some thrusting.
Cooper
We got some real good blips out of it.
Conrad
We were alining in the Horizon Scan Mode and I got
the impression that it pitched us up.
Cooper
We wer e already alined, and we had gone to Orbital
Rate and Horizon Scan, just to come alcng there in
time to go in.
As soon as we had the Ilatform all
ali ned, and before we went in on the night side, I
decided I would realine the pl atform ji.:st very
briefly.
So I had gone to SEF and to IULSE and I
was checking and pulsing it . • But becai.:.se t hen in
SEF position all your torquing is done f rom your
Horizon Scanner.
When the Horizon Scar,ner began to
drop out we began to get real erratic needle display
and it looked like our platform alinemEmt was deter­
iorating.
I was trying to correct thiB, but
obviously, it was really kicking us off.
That was
when we went t o CAGE , tried desperatelr to get it
caged and realined in time , and thought we had i t
realined.
We may have had it reasonab:.y well alined
by the time we f inally yawed right.
I ·; looked like
it was.
The needles wer e all zeroed out and