Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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Borman
GLV fuel and oxidi zer pressure gauges were nominal.
The
concept of sticking the decals on the outside of the gauge
is poor at the best. But, we all know this has been done,
and they're not going to change the gauges, and it worked
fine. I would suggest never going this way again. I think
we ought to change the meters in the future.
Borman
The altimeter worked fine.
The only problems we had with
the altimeter was
when we were oscillating violently on the
drogue , it was not indicati ng descent.
As soon as the
drogue oscillations st eadied out , the alti meter came down
very well.
Rate of descent indicator was likewise. As a
matter of fact, I can't tell you what the rate of descent ·
was after we opened the main chute. The main chute was so
good when we looked at it. We didn't see any gores or
frays. And when we went to si ngle point release, I didn't
even look at the rate of dascent indicator. Did you?
Lovell
I couldn't see it.
Borman
Did you even think about it?
Lovell
No, you mean to tell me you didn't look at the rate of
I descent indicator?
Borman
We could tell from the altimeter we were going down very
slow.
The acceler ometer seemed to give us slightly lower
values thttn the recorded.
I think on the reentry the highest
value we got was 3.9 g's. During launch the highest that