Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Lovell
Bonnan
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Borman
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T,ovell
That ' s a minus 1 error here, r ight? And a pJus 2 error
there, right?
Right.
Okay, so I went in here and got to a plus 2 error here,
right ?
fl ight.
Wp..nt up here to a
minus , here ' s the zero mark right here,
to a minus one error; where this thing crossed this thing
right np to here, plus 2, and by eosh, it came right out to
50 degrees or s3 degrees.
They gave ue 55 degrees roll l eft, which is what the nomi­
nal l evel was. ..
I ' ve got i t right here.
Fi fty degrees and 60 deGrees is
what they gave us .
Bank l eft 50 degrees and bank right
60 deerees.
Yes .
~n~ so I looked up the ch~rt and it said 50 QeP,rees as t~e
b~ck uu angles--everything was working just l ike a charm
anrt then I went back here to the bank contonr line to get
out our down range defl ection , and it was 1 or 2 miles , I ·
think it was , no , 5 mil es overshoot; which w~s just ahout
as cl ose as you can hack it .
And I t hought oh boy, this
t■ realJy, talk about nominRl reentry, this is the one