Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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FCSD rep
Cooper
b4~1DEt◄ TIAw
r ight up just about that size--it grows very
slightly but not a heck of a lot and so it's
just about something i n the order of 4
inches diameter.
Something like that--it
has little expansion ratio--i t expands as
it comes out the nozzle slightly, and the~
it just goes sort of like a column and it
fans out very slightly but it goes up
something in the order of 4 to 5 feet
distance from the thruster.
Did you ever get any pictures of that?
No, we didn't .
We had all our cameras
stowed at the time we got that cranked up.
We intended to.
Systems Shutdown - It
worked just like advertised and we turned
the prop valves off, very shortly then
it rtms out of f uel and stops firing and
you notice that there is a little burning
around all the nozzles. There we got a little
residual fuel--not much--just a little bit-­
it dribbles and fumes after i mpact- -probably
very neglible.
I don;t really think we got
them after impact , I think we got them while
still airborne .
But they were almost