Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Conrad
We didn't hit the direct thrusters long enough to
heat them I don't think.
I do distinctly remember
saying to Gordo "We blew all this junk out of there. "
Conrad
We' d never seen anything like that before and we'd
been up there 5 days and seen all sorts of things .
We could see liquid oxygen when we vented it, if we
vented i t under the right light conditions .
We
could see when we vented hydrogen under the right
lighting conditions. It would all float by the
spacecraft and at low sun angles, either at sunup
or sundown any one of these quantities, ECS o2,
CRYO o2, or RSF hydrogen, you could see it come
whistling by the spacecraft. We were continually
floating around in these old silver balls of either
hydrogen or oxygen.
Cooper
Okay, well that was pretty well the background of
what happened.
Some thrusters that had checked
out good would subsequently check out bad or be
completely inoperative as the days went by.
So
finally we wound up with maybe half of the total
OAMS thrusters still operating properly.