Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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and we got them back again and lost it 3 minutes
later at 07 days 16 hours and 30 minufos .
Then
we did a MSC- 1.
I have a note here 7 days and 20 minut(~S was that
large storm where we located the depre:3sion on it.
Take a look at it , and see just where :Lt was ,
and weather breaking off from it.
And then when they came up with their :1ext ground
t est whi ch-­
Had two S-7 eXPeriments .
. ..which I think we could have done without and
that ' s when they had us warm up the solenoids for
ten minutes.
The thing that got to us was that
we had turned-- They had us shut off the Propellant
Valve and what we should have done was dumped the
Propellant by rotating through all control posi tions
on the handle , but what they had us do was go to
the full yaw left position and dumped the whole load
of manifold pr opellants out through the the mal­
functioning left yaw thrusters and man did .that
couple up into a couple of beautiful rates, and we
were doing it at night, and we didn ' t realize until
it was too l ate and all of a sudden there were the