Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Let me ask you a question?
Yes.
When you turned on the RCS heaters , did you turn
on the heater s on both r ings , or did you turn on
the RCS Heater Switch and then turn off the cir cui t
breaker on the other ring?
I turned the heaters on and then I checked to see
which ring it was that was actually heating up by
using the circuit breakers .
The first time I went
ahead and left them on and then the other ring
came on .
I fel t that one of them was about as
cold as the other, so I left the heaters on both
rings throughout the heating cycles.
Good.
They were in perfect sequence--A and B, A and B,
and about 15 minutes apart .
The regularity was
surprising.
The temperatures at the time when
these lights came on were indicating about 63 or
64 degrees and it seemed like it would come up a
little bit, and then come right back down and pop
back on again.
I felt it was not an actual
temperature problem .
I used Rate Command, Reentry Rate Command and Pulse
control modes.
I didn ' t use Direct.
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