Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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FCSD REP
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l ight blinks Green/OFF, Green/OFF.
Lock on light will blink on and it will come out R and
R dot will go from peg to peg.
And they'll settle out
when it really is warmed up good and you've gotten past
the transient periods and they' ll all come back to zero.
I think what they' re looking for are clues to tell you
that the set is warming up correct ly. Ba.ck in the
early days of TACAN we had warmup problems.
In other words, this would be your firnt indication if
something was wrong?
Purge Section.
One and Two.
Well, we got our first load, this 6-4 load.
The first
load that came up over the DCS system and it came up right
over the Cape.
Purge Section.
One and Two .
Got that?
Yes, no. Yes. That' s when we were getting rushed.
Let' s
go back to that.
Let ' s stop right there.
The REP was
supposed to go out at 02 :07 and I purg·ed early and I
always had been purging early because I purged it about
1+50 and then I went through the check off list and they
were all checked off here.
I powered up at 1+50, I
purged the fuel cells and here I checked them off here.
. . . prop gauge experiments and the RAD 1 on and the cold