Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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that way that platform isn 't
i n roll or pitch.
off 4 or 5 degrees
Cooper
So, i t really looks like, when you fir3t start
lining it up, it appear s to you that f ::-om the
left seat that you ' re actually rolled l eft ,
Conrad
Yes, that's right .
Cooper
And f r om your seat it would look l i ke j t
actuall y r olled right.
was
Cooper
It doesn ' t look horizontal at al l, but that ' s due
to the fact t hat you 're sitting off by thi s offset .
Conrad
One other thing that you might say about platform
alinement is that if you ' re not on in roll and
pi tch, mainl y roll, t his really will ea t you up
in alinement time .
Cooper
Roll and yaw are
you can be off a
out.
t he bad errors creator:, .
l ot i n and it' 11 corr ec:t
Pitch
r ight
Conrad
Not if the other two (roll and yaw) are off .
Cooper
But if you 're off in roll and/or yaw th€n it
really takes a long time and its real rcugh .