Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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FCSD Rep
Cooper
yaw.
Build up to any rate you wanted to .
Over a
period of time , one time we got up to about 12
degrees per second.
You just sit there, and drift
it will build you up more, and more and more.
You can really hear it pop off back there.
You
can hear i t "shhh". You see this tremendous big
fiel d of stars go by. If i t ' s in the early or lat e
night you just, the whole sky is just complet ely
covered with this, just millions of stars.. .part­
icles, liquid gases ... I guess.
~uantity measur­
ing system; worked perfectly satisfactory. Flow
rates were good.
Pressure was . . . pressure was
fine . It got up; I don ' t think you ever need to
use, unless you are doing something like EVA,
I don't think you ever should consider ever
using a heater on that oxygen system because i t
all by itself fairly rapidly gets on up there to
boil off pressures.
Boil off temperatures I
should say.
How about BJC.Jp, UTE,
Di d you ever use that?
Used O Hi gh Rate when they were purging the cabin.
2
It worked f ine , reset fine.
We used i t then for
landing.
Manual heater we never used.
The controls ;
we did very little as f ar as doing anything with