John Company

Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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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
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