Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part I, 1965

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Cooper
From lift­ off until 2400 hours the day of launch
was elapsed t ime and s tarting at that t ime we started
calling it day one and then GM!'.
Conrad
Okay.
So , we went through a l i ttle deal here
where we started to power up and they let us tum­ ­
we'd been drifting hadn' t we?
Cooper
Yes.
I ' ll say.
Conrad
We turned up the AC , ACME inverter on and the ACME
bias power on OAMS attitude on and we went t9 pulse
and we were supposed to power back down again at
02 + 27 + 25.
We were supposed to have this H2
purge at 02 + 45 + 00 .
That was the first thing,
they were just going to let us purge H
we
2
didn't purge the o:xygen.
Everybody was worried
about that.
Then we were on the flight plan and
they gave us an update time for our first
medical pass and we stayed­ - ! think we took these
vision tests , didn ' t we?
Cooper
Yes, we did.
Conrad
We just stayed right on the fli ght plan, had the
vision tests, and I have a comment in here that at
01 days 04 hours and 32 minutes we saw our first
meteor r e- enter.
Cooper
~an, we saw a lot of those meteorites re­ enter