Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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White
McDivitt
there as I chased it around, and those were the
only modes I intended to use right then.
Later
on, I checked out the Reentry Rate Command and I
checked the Rate Command before we thrusted.
It
did seem to be operating fine .
Why don ' t you go
through the next part , Eli?
All right .
We're going to get into the source
temperature and pressure , the regulated pressure,
and the propellant quantity.
Let ' s take the
temperature first .
The temperature of our OAMS
was 75 degrees all the way down the line .
The
i nit ial indications on the pressures were approxi­
mately 2800 psi for the source and 320 psi for the
regulated pressure.
The quantity gage operated all right except that,
as I mentioned earlier, the thing seemed to wander
up and down somewhere between 2 and 4 percent ,
depending upon where you were in the mission.
You ' d read it one time and it would be 60, and
you'd read it a little while later and it would
be 62, and you 'd r ead it a little while later and
it 'd be back about 60.
The greatest variation in
that thing that ever occurred was when I went to
sleep one time with it reading 60 and woke up and