Gemini 5 Technical Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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Cooper
FCSD Rep
Conrad
damping those rates.
But it sure was steady.
We
used almost 80 percent of the , yes, 80 percent of
the fuel in Ring B from 65 to 30.
65 down.
On this voice tape recorder. Didn't you say ·it
broke after you got 4 tapes.
Yes, what happened was that the thing worked just
·1ike advertised.
Two minutes before the tape ran
out you get the little flicker on the tape recorder
l i ght which is now up on the caution and warning
panel, and at the end of the two minutes the TAPE
OUT light comes on steady and that operat es just
as advertised and then one day I put a new tape
in it and Gordo and I held a big debriefing on it,
About what all our storage was and present
configuration that we were in in the spacecraft,
and what we thought the six, I mean, 'that the seven
troops would want to know about how we were using
our storage and we thought the best place to do it
was in flight right there while we were using it
and we really put down some good dope and we also
had some thoughts on Apollo on the darn thing and
I figured we talked at least an hour on the thing,
and I couldn't understand why it hadn't run out and