Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965
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Conrad Cooper Cooper Conrad Cooper Cooper Conrad Cooper Conrad 25 It ran down in the 48 degree area. It showed that it was running too cold. That's why we questioned turning the OAMS heater off, Regul ated pressure was fine . Right on the money. Propellant quantity seemed to read r easonably good until it got down towards the end. At that point (from about 10 percent on down) the propellant quantity just went on down to the bottom of the scale. It was reading below zero and yet ground readouts indicated OAMS propellant quantity remaining. Monitoring of OAMS propellant r emaining onboard information was fairly good. Yes. I thought we were fairly close. Gr ound i nformation agreed fairly good with onboard information in general. The whole OAMS systems got to be reviewed. I think that they think we wasted a lot of fuel and I think that on day 3 we probabl y were a little overgenerous with our fuel usage. But I ' m still ret◄ FtE>Et.~TIA ~ I