Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Borman
Borman
The MDU worked perfectly the entire flight.
Computer modes,
PRELADNCH, ASCENT, CATCH-UP, RENDEZVOUS , REENTRY, were all
perfect, no anomalies in any of those,
8.8 Crew Station
Controls and di splays,
The sequenti al tel elights o~erated
exactly as programmed.
At minus 2:56, t hey came on to the
second.
They al l turned green when they were punched, no
probl ems there.
The event timer was used only intermittantly
throughout the flight for timing, and for the last 20
minutes. It worked f ine.
The IVI's also worked exactly as
planned.
The Flight Di rector Indicator was again, a nomi­
nal case.
One sli ght difference between the simulator and
the Flight Director Indicator i n the spacecraft, was the
little outer roll gimbal i ndi cator in the simulator always
came up to the top. I'd grown used to flying the reentries
by using that as a lift vect or. In the spacecraft when we
got all set up for reentry, low and behold, the outer roll
gimbal was down at the bottom, so I had to fly the reci­
procal of it. But it was just a minor change and I ended
up acclimating to it with no problem.
I think it is just a
function of how you happen t o go through zero.
If you go
through zero just a little bit to one side, the gimbal goes
to the top, and if you go through the other side, it goes
to the bottom.