Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
Conrad
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convinced that because we went so long with the
OAMS heater off that we were not burning a nominal
fuel to oxidizer ratio.
Yes .
Even though we were in a rush to get a lot of
...
these things done, I was still extremelr conscious
of fuel usage . Although I'd used Direct to get
i t started, I wouldn't just fire all the way around
in Direct input, let it coast around, a~d then stop
it right there.
Yes. I never saw fuel usage in the sim1lator like
we saw in flight .
I t just seemed to go down very rapidly on the gauge
during that one period of time.
And yet we went night after night all night long in
Horizon Scan or in Pulse and would hardly use any
fuel at all.
As a matter of fact, the ground gave
me the figures.
This was when we were ::unning all
ni ght long in Horizon Scan so that we had a nice
reference.
They said "You' re using about 2 pounds
a night.
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Now, that seems like a r easonable amount
for what we were doing.
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