Pilot may take full control over attitude of vehicle any time from separation of booster through orbital flight, retrofire, and re-entry; 4 tasks facing astronaut are control of attitude in orbit, during retrofire, rate damping during re-entry, and recovery from tumbling maneuvers; most critical maneuver is controlling vehicle during retrorocket firing; schematics of control systems.


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    Title :

    Manual control of mercury spacecraft


    Additional title:

    Astronautics


    Contributors:
    Voas, R.B. (author)

    Published in:

    Astronautics ; 7 , n 3


    Publication date :

    1962


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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