Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
That's a drastic move to make, but just that one
experience was just enough to convince me that if
you can' t 100 per cent trust everybody and the
system isn' t going to work, then you just don ' t
dare trust it at all. I wouldn' t even think of
not flying again with that DCS circui t breaker ON .
Conrad
At least for reentry.
Cooper
At lease in crew ... .
Conrad
You couldn't have hurt us any better than by sending
t hat load up.
Cooper
Real- time t ransmitter,delayed-time trmsmitter, fine .
Stand-by t ransmitter ... .
Conrad
We were out of fuel on Ring A. And we had 4.9 and
4.6 left in Ring B.
Which is good.
It says that
Ring A ran out sometime after Ring B ~ame on, which
says we went around the world 1 1/2 ttmes and re-­
entered on Ring A by itself.
That's :9retty impressive.
33 pounds of fuel
It al so shows you how much
fuel we used in Ring B.
We tested Ring B and
turned it off and didn ' t turn i t on u1til sometime
less than 70,000 f eet and turned it back off again
at 30,000 feet so we used the majorit;r of the fuel
on RATE COMMAN]) in Ring B from 65 to 30 which says
it probably fired continuously all thi? way down,
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