Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Cooper
Conrad
:But you did go back to the AUTO.
Yeah. I put ii; back in AUTO , you know, and then I called
t hem, I think it was on the tape and I think I told
them, I said, the S'f!litch is on AUTO .
We're okay.
Don' t worry about it and then right aft er that we got up
to this 240 or so in there and we realjzed that something
was wrong and the heater was out and I guess we told
them-­We told them at Carnarvon that t he heater was out.
Cooper
Well, we checked at that time then on ·~he annneter on
and off and on and off t hat on both manual and AUTO and
it was obvious.
Conrad
And that' s when we-­
Cooper
And it was coming down so rapidly that it looked like
very shortly thereafter we were going to have fuel
Conrad
cell stoppage..
We were getting below 200 and falling pretty fast and
we had a big discussion between ourselves and we just
made up our mind to forget the REP.
We felt we were
Cooper
really in trouble.
So we elected at that point to start rowering down because
we knew that we were using fuel cells at a very high
rate.
Conrad
And we secured the Platform and Radar and everything else.