UNKNOWN: - Just perpendicular. If we only had a control system, I'm sure we could do this much better than even in the simulator. in pitch and yaw. wi lliug, is Just to let the roll go and see if it will damp out after awhile here. we'11 do it. roll. awhile. We're out in front of h_m Just a little bit. pressure. slack. and Just let the roll part of it go, if you can do that okay. is roll. ·red that way. on the Agena, if you could, and include 451 and 460 in an attempt to save some control gas now. It's getting mighty low. much further ahead of him. Maybe we might possi- bly ... up. here on the ground. CALIFORNIA the direction of orbit travel. We're a little bit to the right. We stayed ahead for quite some while and - I don't know, I think we might end up getting captured. anyway, usually goes to up so we'11 just stay in here and see what happens. We have a loose tether, and though, between the Agena the Spacecraft. hit the end of the tether? bouncing off it lightly. Right? tating very slightly or you are captured - looks like it'd be all right. How do you feel about going into the night that way and not try to sta- tionkeep? we'11 be sending you some DCS loads - and we want to do this Just to check your computer. We'11 call when we send them. before we're going to do it, and you can go to PRELAUNCH for it so we can look at it. CALIFORNIA a very loose tether. It's snaking round and it might get wrapped around some of our antennas out- side of the Spacecraft or along the aft. tion of motion now. We've been ahead of him all up until now. We,re still off to the right. grees - about 40 or 45 degrees. a ways to go before night. below the horizon. bit now. TEXAS to PRELAUNCH, please? a load. get a picture of the Agena and Houston at the same time. Houston in the background. computer to CATCHUP now? please? The load was good. down. The Agena is slowly rising up to the hori- zon, I believe. but that's about it. HOUSTON you're safe in going through the night as long as you don't get too much slack. How do you feel about that? back to the back end of the Spacecraft. If she stayed taut, we'd be fine. that you're hitting the end of the tether, once every 2 or 3 minutes, or less than that, or more? close. I think there is probably some elasticity. We lucked out, I think, somehow. in it, though, you're getting some slack that looks like it's getting underneath the Spacecraft and you can't see the tether. Is that what you're saying? see the tether or the Agena. It's down below us someplace._ well, for e_mple, right now it's wrapping around at the spacing thing that I put on. It's pretty close to taut right now. from the horizon. she hits the end. It's yery, very - - a little closer now to his line of motion and to the orbit plane. We're mostly behind him now, and I think to really tell as to how far down the hori- zon we go when we get to maw_,_,mbehind him. you see when it's over the nose? I haven't seen the Agena. But at times we can't see anything. Just the red wire that goes right down around the nose when the Agena's below us. tude excursions are, with respect to the tether, when in pitch, say like 60 degrees, 45 degrees. How much are you pitching with respect to the tether? guys discuss it and let us know? the tether, and the other was with respect to the local vertical. pitched up 110 degrees.