Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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You lmow even if we can' t get something that they
can pipe into the spacecraft, at the very least
we ought to TM the pressura.nt pressure down to the
~ound and back up again, or something, and get ,
some sort of calibration curve-­
So that we'd lmow what we have remaining in the
a.dapter.
We could at least call the people down at the
ground and say, "How much water do we have left?"
That ' s right. And I think we ought to be able to
tell what our bottle has inside of it in the
spacecraft .
Yes, I 1:h:ink they're really two separate things .
I think first of all you've got to know the
total water that you've got left and the rate
that
it's going down.
I think the second thing
that Ed's pointing out is that we don't even have
a:n:y way of telling what the water supply is in the
spacecraft. The first clue that you get that
you're out of water is you just run out of water.
The lighting on the water management panel I
think is just about non-existent. You can see it
in the daytime. If you know the position of the