Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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FCSD Rep
Cooper
Conrad
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This Perigee adjust.
Did you do that i::1 Rate- is
that the one you did in Rate Command?
Or is that
the one you tried in PLATFORM?
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Did that in PLATFORM and it worked fine on that one.
Did that one in PLATFORM and it worked ,~eat, but
then on some of these other burns we did I tried
it in PLATFORM and it really didn 1 t work well at
all. That 's why I rather suspect the P::.ATFORM
thing. There's something wrong with it .
I think
i t was better at some times than others . It was
allowing a lot of drift.
Okay, in the log book I have it at 50 m:.nutes which
is just prior to Carnarvon that I found the Fuel
Cell o2 and H Heater Circui t Breaker OFF.
Now
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that--I found it off because they told us to heat
the Hydrogen not the Oxygen, but the Hydrogen final­
ly drilled down to the 220 and they want ed us to
use the heater and I turned the heater on and I
noticed that I didn 1t get any ammeter rise and so
I looked at the circuit breaker panel and the
Circuit Breaker was OFF.
So, now in ret rospect
seei?hg·the o ON which is on the same circuit
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breaker burned out, I'm sure that it blE,w when this
thing burned out,
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