Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
Cooper
Conrad
FCSD REP
Conrad
Yes.
That's when we came around on the next
revolution.
'Illey had us fire up everything again
to take a look at i t and that's when we found out
number 8 had just gone down the tubes too.
But
number 8 was still givi ng us something; number 8
was stil l burning, but it was burning off mi xture.
You could see a flame.
You could see a glow out of it.
You couldn' t hear it like you could hear the other
thrusters, but you could see lights on the ni ght
side so you knew something was coming out.
'Ille
drivers just weren't openi ng all the way or some­
thing.
The fifth day at 16:30 is the first problem you
had with the OAMS, is that right?
No, earlier.
When we first powered the system
up, we were having trouble with that very f irst
platform alining and we felt we were having some
hydrogen venting problems.
'Ihat's when we drifted
way off, and Gordo said, "'Ille Pulse system isn't
going to hack this hydrogen venting. "
He went
t o Di rect and blipped the yaw l eft thrusters.
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