Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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think that's about the time we really decided the
s canner wasn' t any good, or had we already tol d
them about that?
Cooper
Yes.
We 'd already t old them about that.
Conrad
Yes, you ' re right.
I know what it was.
That's
when we discovered that the voice tape was out.
We were right i n the middle of several experiments
and it occurred
approximatel y like 16:30:54 on
the f i f th day.
We reported to Houston that the
voice tape was out, the number 7 yaw L~ft thruster
was out and that I had turned the OAMS heater back
on.
I was suspicious of that all the ·;ime.
That's
when they called up and gave us this m:i.nimum power
down.
Why did we go i nto that?
They had us power
down everything.
Cooper
At about the same time that we came up with this,
they came up with this idea that the hrdrogen was
boiling off so fast that we were going t o be out of
hydrogen by about the end of the f i fth day at the
rat e we were goi ng i f we di dn't power down and stop
the usage of i t .
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