John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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We never got the point where it crossed behind us be­
cause somewhere when it was about the 210 point was when
we were out of fuel, of fuel cell o2.
Yeah, well, you see, we went by Carnarvon-­
And this was coming down just BALOOM BALCOM BALOOM
BALCOM BALCOM.
See, here we go.
We went by Carnarvon.
Here I was trying
to figure out in here what was going on and what we
were going to take out and everything and we went by
Carnarvon and right here at Carnarvon and that's when
Charlie .. . called up and says check your o2 heater
switch to AUTO .
Now I had seen it fall, had noticed
that it had been falling and I had gone to the AUTO
position when without even being told -­
You had already gone to nanua.l.
And then I was doing many other things and I decided
it wasn' t coming up and so I'd gone to manual and held
it over there a couple times and sort of looked at it
and -­
That didn' t work either.
I must have kidded myself into thinking that I was
getting something out of it, and then I forgot it
again and then~­