Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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FCSD Rep
Cooper
Conrad
Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
everything was settled down.
The Horizon Scanner
.was working at that point.
It quit working properly
after we turned to yaw right .
We had already gone
into Orbital Rate, so we could care less about the
scanner at this point .
We got it alined, and we ' re
already in Orbital Rate.
We yawed right , got squared
away and 15 seconds late ejected the REP on the
IVI's all zeroed.
We then used a couple of DIRECT
pulses, zipped back around, picked it up going around
to the 270. It was going right straight out to 270
on our ball .
We could see the REP light whenever we
were passing through the 90 degree point .
On my side,
I could see it flashing on the nose .
By the time we
got around it was in quite close, we could see it
going out with a very slow tumble rate, flashing.
What would you estimate the tumble rate to be?
It was tumbling very slowly, I would say maybe a
half to 1 degree per second.
I 1d say a degree per second.
I couldn't tell what it was in roll .
It didn't seem
to be tumbling in more than 2 axes.
That was ha.rd to tell .
When I saw it, you could see the dipole come around.
We couldn 1t tell anything about roll, but it was not