Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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the LANDING SQUI:B a.t 100,000 feet and sat th.ere and watched.
it.
6.5 lOOK Feet
Borman
I started losing it; I think we may have run out of RCS fuel
between 100,000 feet a.nd 50,000 feetJ at lea.st I thought we
had.
6.6 50K Feet
Lovel l
Wel l, didn't you turn off the RCS?
Borm8Jl
I didn't turn th&t off until a.fter we got on the drogue.
We
were starting to build up the yaw and pitch rates. Then at
50,000 feet, I was anxiously a.wa.it :lng the drogue, because
these rates were building up a little. They weren't very
bad yet, though. I pushed the drogue expecting it to de­
crease, and all it did wa..s a.m.plify th.em.
And we got a. .real
ride on the drogue for a. whil e, sounded like the one Jim and
Ed discussed. It was r e&lly going pretty bad.
Lovel l
Our angles were what? About 70 degrees.
We pitched up?
Borman
Oh no, I estima.te we were oscillating back and forth maybe
20 degrees.
Lo<rell
From the drogue here pitching up we were rolling back a.:nd
forth more than 20 de.grees on that initial pa.rt.