Gemini 7 Technical Debriefing, 1965

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sure that in case something goes wrong with the thruster,
they could utilize more fuel to keep that alignment.
:Borman
Right. Well , as it worked out, we came out all right, any­
way.
Because we just said we were not going to do anymore
if we got to 5 per cent to 6 per cent. Tb.en they came back
and said that one time, I said, "Well, we're at 6 per cent,"
and they said, "we thought you would go ahead and go to 5
per cent." And this is an awful nebulous thinking.
Lovell
Besides the gauge is hard to read to that accuracy .
Borman
Th.a.t is r ight.
Okey-.
We have already discussed, I think,
the consumables on the fuel cells and the batteries.
We
turned off the squib batteries, about the 10th~. The
fuel cell consumables were never a problem.
Lovell
Main battery voltage was never reall y hi gh, I thought. I
have been led to believe that 22.5 volts was sort of a
minimum voltage for a battery. They were up about 23 or
22.8 in the early part of the flight, and they were down to
about 22.6, I guess, towards the end of the flight.
13.4 Flight pl an changes
Borman
If there was a flight plan change, the only one that I know
of, that we were not aware of, was the one of updating our
perigee in the first burn.
We thought we were going to burn
it to 102. It came out we burned it to 120 and I'd like to