Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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I got myself up around 65:40 something elapsed time .
I just drew a mark there.
That's exactly where I've got you up--at about
I got a comment here.
This is something that
went on throughout the flight .
I went to sleep
and I looked at the OAMS Quantity Gage and it was
reading 60 percent.
When I woke up it read 56
percent.
This meant a 4 percent drop and it
was somewhat alarming since we were saving fuel
so much.
He accused me of having to use all the fuel up
while he was asleep.
Ha, ha.
No .
I'd noticed that the gage went up and down
before, but it never had gone up and down so much
in such a short time.
It would move up and down
by 2 percent quite frequently over a period of
15 minutes to an hour. It would change by 2
percent. It did this between 60 and 70 percent
for a long, long, long t ime.
We were going pretty
easy on the fuel .
It did move up and down like
this quite a bit.
This is just a comment that
throughout the flight the OAMS Quantity Gage did
fluctuate quite a bit.
We had the uncertainty
~fl01:Nt lA!