Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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i s when we found the two thrusters that were not
operating correctly.
Conr ad
'Ille number 8 thruster was working real good when we
found that the number 7 thruster was out.
So we
shut the system down again and had a big talk with
Houston about this.
We went one more revolution
and they gave us some tests to perform on 7 and
that 's when we di scovered 8 wasn ' t working.
Conrad
'lwo of them quit, within an orbit of one another.
Cooper
We had already run complete tests on it and
number 8 had been working on the previous tests and
quit on the next one.
'Ille story of the old OAMS
inflight system was that gradually as the days went
by there was more, and more that went wrong with
it unti l f inally at the end we had less than half
the thrusters left and they were pretty bad.
Conrad
I realized a couple of heater blankets were probably
out on the OAMS system, but I'm still convinced
unt i l somebody convi nces me otherwise, that the
thing that shot the OAMS system down, was the
decision to turn off the OAMS heater.
I had ques­
ioned the decision in the air to only point that