Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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13.0 MI3SION CONTRO:
13. 1
GO/ NO GO
Cooper
GO/NO GO' s--I think we 're fine .
I don' t see anything
wrong with the GO/NO GO's.
13.2 Pl~ and CLA Updat~s
Cooper
Conrad
13
Consumables
Cooper
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I thought those went all right .
Do you?
Yes , we had a hip pocket place to go on every orbit .
Consumables--In general we had a pretty good handle
on those. The oxygen, the OAMS- ­
We had one anomally on the OAMS .
I still don ' t think
we lifted off with the right OAMS propellant .
No , I don ' t think so either .
We had 87 percent- ­
87 percent on liftof f and they never answered that
question for us .
We did ask why we had this r eading rather than 100
percent and we never got that answer .
We asked this
shortly before liftoff.
This may have had to do with the fact that we had
full fuel but not a full load of oxydizer based on
that 1 ,25 mixture ratio. My understanding was that
we were supposed to liftoff with 100 percent on the
gage.
I ' m not saying that was correct but it took
I
us by surprise when they blew the Squibs a
couple of minutes before liftoff and had 87 percent
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