Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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on the gage.
Cooper
Electrical--1 don't think there was a:ny problem on
the electrical system.
The problem Wc,s in the
cryogenics rather than the electrical.
I should say
in the cryogenics and in the water product of the
fuel cells. These were the limiting things rather
than the electrical power we were using.
As long
as you could run the fuel cells there was no limit to
the power you could pull off of them.
Conrad
Let I s put that to bed right now.
The GPO fluffed
powering up those fuel cells after thny' d been
powered down. If our electrical prob:.ems didn't do
anything else, we got to cycle electr:_cal loads all
the way through the flight on those fuel cells .
As far as I'm concerned, those fuel CBlls are flight
proven.
Every fuel cell in every spa<!ecraft that
goes off should carry the maximum loacl of RSS
supply so that he has all the electrieal power that
he wants to use.
He can run that pla·;form, computer,
or any combination of electrical gear that he wants
anytime during the flight. The same ·;hing with the
experiments.
You' ve got to have that platform. We
kept pinching electrical power and pinching electrical
power.
I think we proved that the fu<~l cells can take
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