John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

NASA-UAP-D020 · page 91 of 325

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Yes.
And as soon as those retro ' s fired the llght came
on green and it went right into reentry ,5',lidance
. . . reentry guidance
Reentry guidance was right on the money when it came
on, it came on exactly on time.
Roll neeclle, roll
bug . . ..
Stopped at 400,000 feet , right at the tine Houston
gave us our computed time to 400 K.
And the 290 K steering commands came in ~ ust right.
Came in just where they should, the dir ection they
should come in and everything~
At about the r ight magnitude • •••
And about the right magnitude.
Then the problems
star t ed.
And tbat was the loose nut on the ground and not
in the air, f ortunately.
MDU , t hat worked fine.
That apparently worked fine.
Computer modes. Let' s see, pr e l aunch worked good.
Ascent worked beautiful ly, catch up . . . . Ne didn ' t
real ly do any catch up except the one . .. .
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