Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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13.3 Consumables
Borman
My goodness, we had 30 per cent o2 l eft when we jettisoned
the adapter.
30 some per cent~ o2 and about 40 per cent
~ hydrogen.
The OAMS were a l ittle di fferent situation.
We cut that off at about 2 per cent.
I was a l ittle dis­
turbed on the real-time fl ight planning in the l&et couple
of d.!cys when they were sending up for more experiments than
they knew we had f'uel to do.
.And telling us to sift them
out. This sor t of puts the onus of not doing it on the
pilot. I guess in the l ong run i t is the best W8:3' to do it,
but they would call up and sa_y-, "well, here is a whole lot
of updates that you can do i.f you have t he f'uel." Well,
they knew darn well, we didn't have the f'uel .
Lovell
That is right.
Borman
In ma.ny cases it turned out to be weathered a:nywa.y.
Lovell
And we had been briefed that there was a rather large error
in the quantity- Nadout on the quantity gauge, and .fortun­
ately .for us it l ooked like it was in our favor.
Borman
We also had the Vol kswagon tank which helped out. So we
knew e:r:a.ctly where we were then.
Lovell
But we should, in future flights, make sure that the spa.oe­
cra.ft has enough f'uel for adequate BEF alignment, and for
at least a coupl e of revolutions with enough reserve to m.a.ke