Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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little background information on it. How else could we
know it was going to be good for 24 hours, and what had
they done to prove it would be good for 24 hours? They
read it to us over CS~, it eased my mind a lot because I
wasn ' t anxious to miss the WASP.
On the 13th day, I
wanted to be able to go the full 24 hours rather than have
to land in the Pacific. So the whole story of the electri­
cal monitoring, as far as I a.m concerned, was great work by
the ground.
The main batteries held constant between 22.5 and 22.7 amps
for the entire mission, and we checked them once a day at
the GO/NO GO stations. When we turned them on ·2
hours
before retrofire they carried their share of the load and
were operating fine when we were in the water.
We turned
off the squib batteries about the 10th day and used the bus
tie switches.
We ran entirely on fuel cell power for the
last five days.
When the squibs came back on, the voltage
was 25.5 after they had been turned off for five days.
They operated properly for the last 2 hours of the flight.
s.7 Onboard computer
During t he l aunch it was absolutely a nominal case.
The
pitch status, yaw status, and roll status, were zeroed
except for a brief period at guidance initiate when they went
out about 2 to 3 degrees,and then zeroed.
We had no violent