Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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have said, it is a very tight and fine mode.
We used it
during most of the reentry.
REENTRY RATE COMMAND we did
not use.
DIREC~ I used for the first part of the reentry,
and it seemed that we were picking up rolling torques , and
I was also starting to pick up pitch and yaw oscillations
as the gs were coming on.
They were slight ones but I
really wanted to get the spacecraft steady, end I was really
trying to lock it in on the attitude indicator, so we went
to RAT~ COMMAND.
I didn't see any reason to bring back a
lot of RCS fuel anyway.
REENTRY RATE COMMAND we did not use.
The PUISE mode wa.s used in the reentry prior to guidance
initiate, and it worked fine. Retrofire attitude control
was excellent and I'm gl ad we bad RATE COMMAND there because
we had no outside reference at all. Retrofire was done on
the ball with the rate needles, and I thought the rockets
were outstanding. Yes.h, outstanding, I thought they were a
little more powerful than I had anticipated.
Lovell
Q;uite all right.
Borman
Reentry attitude control deadbands and rate damping was
fine. The only thing, I guess, that was wrong with RATE
COMMAND was the fact that it uses an awful lot of fuel.
But, it certainly holds that spacecraft steady as a rock.
The heater lights - we solved that problem very easily.
We