Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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was just keeping it damped to zero. We -weren 't
firing thrusters too overly often.
You could see
them fire now and then, but it wasn't a great
task for them to fire at all .
I really thought
the whole reentry was quite stable and at no time
did we have a;ny real oscillations .
Conrad
Somewhere in there Ring A ran out of fuel .
But
I am almost convinced that-­
Cooper
Well , let me say r ight here now
Pde.
I
way flying the thing.
Ring A didn't run out of
fuel as long as I was flying. We still had control .
Now
you are talking about down after drogue deploy.
I ' m talking about during reentry.
Until the time
that we went to dual-ring RCS, we still had fuel
left in Ring A.
Conrad
Yes, I know we did.
Cooper
Okey, I just wanted to make that clear on the
record.
Conrad
It ran out somewhere below 65,000 f eet .
Cooper
Yes , by those f igures you got yesterday, it looked
like we still had fuel in Ring A sometime af t er
we br ought Ring Bon, which was at 60,000.
Right?