Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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because it ' s a cryogenic system and it could have
stabilized out around 1000 or 1050.
But on the other hand it could have continued to
build right on up.
Su.re it could.
But I sort of suspect that the--well, I don't know.
It's different from this other problem where we
were told that the thing didn't require heaters
below 38 percent , and we found out that it really
didn't require 'them below 42 percent.
We turned them off at 42 percent .
Right .
The secondary o system--I thought those performed
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admirably. In_fact, they had more oxygen in them
than I thought they could hold. Jim ' s was up to
around 5500 pounds shortly after launch. It re­
mained up there and drizzled out about 100 pounds
throughout the flight .
Actually they increased by 100 psi each right after
launch.
Right at the first mode of flight .
Then they
drizzled back down and stayed at 5400, I think,
right on down through the flight .
The lowest