Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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of doing experiments on the fifth day, and we had
had a little trouble alining the platform.
What
was happening, apparently was the number 7 thruster
was getting cranky, but we also knew we were vent­
ing hydrogen and we knew this because we were
getting some torqueing out of that.
At the t i me
Gordo was having trouble ali ning the Platform, we
thought it was because the hydrogen was venting.
Finally Gardo said, "There's something wrong with t
the control systems. "
Once we deci ded there was
something wrong wi th the control system, that 's
when it went just like back i n the simulator.
We
shut everything down, went to Direct, thought about
it for a second and turned off all the circuit
breakers , turned them all back on one at a time,
tested all of the thrusters and, sure enough, when
we got to number 7, it was out, completely out.
Conrad
So then I tri ed secondary ACME bias power.
We
tried the seconday yaw and the secondary attitude
drivers with no effect so we were relatively as­
sured that something had happened in either the
hand controller or the fuel was not feeding.
We
decided to power down r i ght there , which we did,
and we advised flight of what the problem was.
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