Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
We didn ' t even check reentry rate command-­
Cooper
We used direct, UBed pulse .
We uned the
rate command.
We used hori zon scan.
Conrad
I know what it was--why don ' t you tell
them about this--and I ' m going to see if I
can get the fuel f i gures-­
Cooper
OK.
And they all worked very adequately.
I thought the rate command system, I mean
the RCS system was an excellent system.
It was really crisp and just really, I
thought, it was a real good solid system.
Rate command was much more-­
FCSD rep
What about the retrof ire - how did i t
hold retrofire?
Cooper
Beautifully, it was just no effort at all­ ­
hold-­
FCSD rep
+ 1 degree or less?
Cooper
Oh, yeah, easily.
We had a little offset
in number 3 and number 4.
I could feel
them offsetting us.
I just cranked in a
little bit of RCS :
Boy, it just glued it
right in there, it just wasn ' t about -­
I felt like we could have had four or five
times the offset we had--and never have
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