Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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oscil lations or anything.
The rings were f iring -all
the time.
Cooper
I ~ never was out of f uel before we put the other one
on, 1
1 11 guarant ee .
I know because I was sitting
there controlling with it and I know that we had
control .
Conrad
I know that both thrusters were physically burning
inside - - you know, the throats were burning when I
shut the propellant off.
In other words, t he pro­
pellant was shut off and there was no fuel f low
going to them, but both Ring A and Ring· B thrusters
t hat I could see had throat f lames in them.
Cooper
That ' s just from residual fuel .
Conrad
Yes, that ' s what I mean.
So, I had the impression
that t hey r an al l the way down, and then i f Ring A
did run out of fuel at all , it did it a.t the very
end, you know.
I think that you ' ll find that there
was f uel in both RCS rings and there sr.ould have been
plenty of RCS B fuel left , because we didn ' t even
turn on RCS B until l ess than 70 000.
We wer e at
50 because
Cooper
Yes.
Conrad
- - Gordo put the drogue out instead of turning the
ring on.
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