Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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attitude light. It took 3 minutes after the fast heat
drop out.
And then I noticed after that was the first
time after we did that- powered it up two or three times
why the platform came in at 25 minutes of a f ast heat
drop out.
And then ;x~gat after that it would start to
cage up and you' d get the Attitude Light on and you' d
be in business with the Platformt but that platform
performed beautifully.
Well~ I might make just one remark on the platform.
Some­
thing that I thought was extremely interesting to me.
People have talked about the bad platform drift and
everything but we had one occasion we had our platform
powered for some 18 or 20 hours.
Let' s seet why did we do that?
Because they wanted us to-
Oh, it was after we tumbled up there with that OAMS
check which they really didn't think out too well and
they thought we might lose our gas volume.
We were about to lose the gas volume by starting to
vent again so they wanted us to power up, bring the
power up to a pretty high level to keep below the
vent pressure on the hydrogen.
Yes, to keep the platform warmed up incase we had to­