Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
We didn't always agree with Mission Control. One
example--! would have l oved to argue with them
about the heater circuit on the OAMS.
I was against
turning it off.
Cooper
On fuel cell-­do you want to go back tc OAMS.
We ' ve
already gone by it.
Conr ad
Yes, I ' m a curious person by nature and so is every­
body else that flies one of these spacecraft. When
you send up something you ought to tell them why
you 're doing it .
Especially when we get into these
screwy conditions .
We didn ' t have any choice when
t hey said shut down the fuel cell but to shut down
t he fuel cel l. It wouldn't have cost them another
t wo words to say what they were trying t o do.
I think
i t was obvious to us what they were trying to do.
I tell you, they made some decisions down there on
t he ground t hat I 'll still sit back here and argue
wi th them about .
Cooper
Yes, you are right on that OAMS heater.
Conr ad
OAMS heater was one of them and another one is the
manner in which they conducted that solenoid warmup
idea on the OAMS system to unfreeze i t .
That was a
poor way of doing it.