Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
So then we asked again when we wer e in orbit,
"About this under load on GA.MS fuel" .
I suspect
t hat something was fouled up because we didn ' t get
a full 0AMS load.
That was pretty bad.
Cooper
I think monitor ing onboard of propell~mt r emaining
t o compl et e the mission was pretty good.
The fore­
cast fuel for missi on completion of GE,mini V ought
to be reviewed because somebody didn ' t quite come up
with the right fuel figures .
Twenty- six percent
remaining after the REP would not havE been nearly
enough to have ~one the r emainder of the mission.
Conrad
Yes .
I t hi nk t hat in computing the a.mount of fuel
used t o perform a maneuver, they figure out how much
to get the r ates going but they must s top there.
They must not f i gur e how much fuel it takes you to .
get back to, say, zer o- zero- zero.
Appirentl y t hey
assume that whenever you get done with a tracking
maneuver, you j ust drift to get back to zero- zero­
zero.
Over the U.S. we had maybe 6 or 7 minutes be­
t ween a 30 degree pitch- down target to the next
30 degr ee pitch- down target .
You ' ve got to t r ack
it all t he way through, bing the spacecraft all the
way back up and then go to and track the next target .