Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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:Borman
We were looking right into the sun; I hope they do too.
The
drogu.e pins were no problem.
Jim got them, but again, not
until well into the first orbit. As a matter of fact, I
pulled my own yesterd.a.y morning there.
The problem is
solved; I think they a.re easy to get to.
Lovell
Yes. They a.re easy to pull out.
Borman
I think that we have covered station keeping wi th stage II
booater,partially.
I will mention that the booster, being
without attitude control, translating also with this im­
pul se it was picking up from the venting, is definitely an
order of magnitude more difficult than station keeping with
a
stabl e vehicle like Spacecraft 6.
First of all, you do not have. anyone
control ling the thing;
you do not exactly know where it is going to go, and it
might translate because it is venting and ha.a a slight
thrust.
Borma.n
I know a couple of times we got in a little too close and
I backed out, because you just do not da.re get as close as
you do the way this thing is spewing.
We got a real good
picture, a good l ook at the nozzle. I thought that it
looked like the nozzle was bent in on two places on the
booster engine. It l ooked like the nozzle, the ablative
skirt had been bent in. But then, it may have been just a