Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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15.5 Miscellaneous Discrepancies
Cooper
FCSD Rep
Cooper
OK , I have a little list of discrepanc:.es -ti~ that
I might just include here. These are discrepancies
that I noted during the flight and somn of them
have been noted bef ore, but I might juHt hit them
real briefly. Just to make sure we have all of
them. 1. We lost the stage 2 IPS fuel
gage shortly after launch.
2.
We encountered this
POGO effect at 2 minutes and 6 seconds.
3.
We
lost communications near SECO on UHF No . 1.
many of these have already been explained why, but
I just--1 111 get these down. 4.
We lC>st fuel cell
o2 tank heaters. 5. The M..:1 experimer..t pooped out
and also I thought it was objectionably noisy.
6. The gray interior paint flecks off of the guard
bars and off several areas of the cockpit areas and •
floats and flecks around on the inside. 7.
The
platform mode was no good for t he burm, and was not
holding the spacecraft as it should.
Let me ask one question. Did you ever try that
platform control mode on the RCS system?
No , I didn't. Sure didn't. I wish I l:.ad, I just-­
I guess I had just given it up at that point and
just didn I t get around to it .
I should. have.
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